In a recent thread I made I came across information from various posters I didn’t find to be true. Now, I have mixed feelings on it.
Have you ever thought someone was lying on The Dope? Are there certain topics you don’t think people are truthful about?
Has a Doper ever been caught in a lie? I mean really caught, not just everyone accusing them.
This is the internet. Even though it’s the Dope I still expect about 50% to be outright lies. On the general internet that number rises to 95%.
Oddly when there is no particular benefit or value to lying the incidents are more common. People are nuts.
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Even if they were actually caught in a lie? Note, I don’t have anyone in mind but just asking.
Yes.
Sure, I do. Or let’s say, exaggeration. It’s like how no one in the IQ threads ever has average IQ, for example.
And here I thought this was going to be a fun thread. 
Sorry.
Link to fun thread.
Heh - I totally thought you were going to Rickroll me. 
I can think of twice when members were banned for being caught in a lie. One guy, in order to score points in a debate, claimed that his parents were killed on 9/11. Unfortunately, he had earlier made posts indicating that his parents were alive.
Another time, a poster claimed to be a transgendered and made up a whole life around it but there was an earlier posting history with a completely different set of circumstances.
Is there a forum where such behavior would not result in a warning?
Not sure it requires lies. It just requires that only people who can boast about their IQ are willing to post.
I tend to abstain from posting in threads where responding to the OP truthfully would cast a negative light on me. I’m sure plenty of posters do the same.
Similarly, I assume people abstain from mentioning that anecdote about when they were a loosy worker or a jerk with their girlfriend, while they’ll post about this time when they were totally right and their boss an idiot, or their girlfriend a piece of shit. That results in dopers all appearing to be perfect workers and ideal lovers, without any lie being told.
This is compounded by the fact that the SDMB isn’t very forgiving. So, you’re better off shutting the fuck off if what you have to say about yourself isn’t completely stellar. If you’re, say, unemployed, saying “well, last week I procrastinated and instead of spending 16 hours/day searching for a job, I played on my console, slacked off and went out with my SO spending some money” you bet this post will be dug out if you ever complain about being unemployed and not having enough money, and a hord of hyenas will tear you apart.
What about this guy who posed as a lawyer and was torn apart by SDMB’s actual lawyers?
The Pit, surely?
That was a lie.
This is a lie too.
Or is it…?! :eek:
There was the time that people found out I wasn’t actually Batman.
Well, if it was in GQ you could dispute the fact without attacking the Poster per se. Or you could PM the Poster to let them know what you think is innaccurate.
Yeah. Well, I can assure everyone here that I, for one, am most assuredly not a dog.
Okay…
Hmm…
Let’s see how far we can take this…
I accuse myself of lying to myself on this board. Will you:
respond like LANDRU from the Star Trek episode, “The Return of the Archons”, with a fabulous PopTech meltdown, or
provide a snappy answer, 
a boring answer, :o
Ignore this post altogether.
My penis is nine feet long and perfectly cylindrical. Except for the head, which is a perfect 1/240th scale reproduction of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Also, diamond-studded.
Diamond studded? You had those surgically installed, those aren’t natural!