You sweet summer child. If you don’t think a busy body carefully collecting snippets of information about people to build out a profile on them, was not trying to find their address in real life you are incredibly naive. She did that stuff for years, there is no way she wasn’t taking it beyond just the board.
What do you think she would do with someone’s address once she had it?
I have no earthly idea, but I know I wouldn’t have wanted her to have my real life personal information.
Imagine being the type of person who makes up decades of lies in order to keep posting on a dying message board filled with mentally ill posters.
Now imagine bragging about it.
Unlike you, I actually did serve in the military, and I can assure that none of the many, many O-6s I met and/or worked with ever sounded as fucking stupid as you do right now.
See? Liars like him hate teachers because they wouldn’t let him cheat and plagiarize in school. Same type of person who lies about who he is.
I participate in a number of online communities; this isn’t a technique I developed for the SDMB or that I use exclusively here. It generally requires virtually no effort because I am well practiced at it, and I keep it in easy parameters that are very easy to change up.
And answering people’s questions isn’t bragging. You guys choose to keep a thread about me alive because you are so interested in it. If you don’t want there to be a long thread about me, don’t participate in it. The forums I participate in and the vast majority of threads I participate in are not threads that are about me or about a specific person, they are usually about topics of interest to me.
It feels like you’re lashing out over some sort of personal issue. Nothing I have said is stupid, they are just reasonable precautions to take if you share anything about yourself online. One option of course is to never share anything about yourself of a personal nature, but that actually requires more discipline than my approach, at least for me–everyone has a different conversational style.
I don’t lie about who I am, I lie about which person I am.
If I choose Maine as my fake state of residence, can I get discounts on lobster rolls and fried clams?
Only if you are both an Iraq War and a Vietnam War veteran.
Durp durp durp.
Keep bumping the thread.
Not really, given how filled your story is with inconsistencies.
So after two days of trying to find a way to wiggle out of being exposed as a lying sack of shit, this is the best you can come up with? It was clear you weren’t very bright, but this is disappointing even for you …
First, express amazement that any sort of lie could have been exposed, since by your own repeated accounts, you are so scrupulously honest:
Then, when the lies are plainly revealed, claim that “of course – I lie about everything” …
We have all duly noted that this is not about “personal demographic data” – you have lied in great detail about a wide array of facts – many of which, like your alleged military rank and expertise and your political and educational background – had direct bearing on the conversation at hand.
So at this point, I think it’s appropriate to requote @Left_Hand_of_Dorkness:
At the time, I thought it was a brilliantly conceived joke. Now I think it may well be true.
I did not see this thread until today, so nope.
As I said, nothing I have misstated about my personally identifying information is material to the conversation itself. I can’t elaborate more than that on a point-by-point basis since that would only serve to remove or reduce the obfuscation.
I am honest–unless it’s about something that could be used to personally identify me on an anonymous internet message board. That is intrinsic to how these boards work. Some people protect their anonymity more than others.
ISTM that if someone is genuinely concerned about doxxing, they’d just refrain from giving out personal details. On the other hand, a run of the mill internet liar would just make shit up, because that’s what internet liars do.
Your explanation doesn’t hold water, @Martin_Hyde. Fear of doxxing would explain being very private, but it doesn’t explain making up a bunch of shit for no reason.
In before: Martin regales us with stories about his time in general population in the county lock-up in solitary on The Rock.
As I said, nothing about my posting here is dependent on, predicated on, or enhanced by you or anyone else knowing specifics about my real person, it isn’t material to me if you think I’m a “run of the mill internet liar.” I take actions to protect my anonymity. Your feelings on how I choose to do so are not material to me.
Then you wouldn’t bother to respond. You’re just lying again, because that’s what internet liars do.
Except that’s precisely the sort of thing I don’t really post about. If I have advice or Information that I think is relevant from my life, I might share it in an (anonymized) anecdote. But nothing I share is to “regale” anyone, that suggests a valuation of social capital on this forum that I don’t hold. There is no logical reason to attempt to “regale” people you disdain.
There’s no logical reason to try and explain away your lies, post after post after post, to people you disdain either.