# The discourse here is bad for my mental and physical health, and yours, too. Prove me wrong

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**Created:** [May 17, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-discourse-here-is-bad-for-my-mental-and-physical-health-and-yours-too-prove-me-wrong/1001714 "2024-05-17T19:13:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-discourse-here-is-bad-for-my-mental-and-physical-health-and-yours-too-prove-me-wrong/1001714/179 "2024-05-24T20:39:19Z")

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> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#):
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> Especially when the poster responds in practically every thread. Unless you have them on ignore, you _will_ see their posts and notice the same things being said over and over.

I once accidentally exposed a sock when someone mentioned somebody who was always talking about Hawaii with a “l”. I pointed out that she probably was thinking of Didi44. Turns out that Didi44 and lyngui were the same person. But their posting styles and repeated subjects were distinctive and obvious enough that while I knew it was the same person I didn’t even notice that he was using two different names. (He was a perfectly cromulent user, not a troll.)

> [@Wildfires on Maui \[2023-08-10\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wildfires-on-maui-2023-08-10/988362/42):
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> Okay, when you started posting again the content was [so](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resources-for-learning-mandarin/824799/26) [distinctive](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-color-do-you-ever-guess-at-others-ethnicity/981264/25) I recognized it as being the same person but didn’t even notice that you were doing under a different name from before.

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