I don’t really think this case deserves strenuous rule-parsing or justification, but TubaDiva references multiple personas.
I don’t think the lying was itself clearly bannable, but the creation of a sock account to prompt outcries of praise and sympathy, followed by outrage, victimhood, attention, etc. sure was.
Both sezyoo and umkay used the term “kablooey” and the acronym “KWIM” in their posts. On top of everything else, that was just one coincidence too many.
Nice, Blank Slate. Those kinds of idiosyncratic language use (and spelling when there are alternates) are very concrete tip-offs to speaker identity. This makes me think to do a linguistic analysis of the two written records.
Eh, nyahh, I’m probably too lazy, but if any other linguist (or non-professional linguist) wants to get it started… well, I’m your lazy linguist friend.
You know, if I weren’t such a newbie here, I’d start a thread called: Ask the lesbian linguist mama sitting in bed.
So you want someone more cunning?
flees
The most damning thing was that she showed up here out of the blue with no prior history just a couple of weeks after the fraud was discovered on the other board. Too much of a coincidence.
Pat, it’s been done.
Brick we are often on the same side in issues where people are reacting emotionally to legal issues. I tend to take the by the letter legal viewpoint too. But take my advice, just stop. This one is not getting you anywhere. You are on the wrong side of this. Better to just walk away.
Wow, I’ve been had, and I was crushing on umkay/Clare/whoever too. Oh well, at least it didn’t cost me any $$, just time and emotion and effort.
Thanks to the mods and all others who connected the dots.
I’m new at this, forums and all, and continue to learn. I just looked up what a sock account is, and now I know its definition (Hello, Marley23!).
As Cougar says, life goes on, long after the thrill of livin’ is gone. Rock on.
My advice is to not name them otherwise you’ll just get attached.
OK, thanks.
Good advice, Poster 53900.
I’m too lazy too…I just read it somewhere.
And honestly, kablooey? Someone needs to go back to troll school.
Here’s why I’m disappointed about the banning: I was putting the chances at 99% that we had already seen the last post out of umkay, and now I’ll never know if I was right (about that part at least.)
Yes. Cecil Adams and TubaDiva are secretly the same person, and the reason they created Cecil’s original column and, subsequently, this website, was to make the Umkay account in order to troll us all.
Wouldn’t this just prove you right?
I think the mathematical phrase about something like this is that it’s “vacuously true.”
[literalist pedant]
Implicit in Do Not Taunt’s prediction was the notion that umkay would not return of her own volition. Banning her makes it impossible to prove DNT’s prediction either true or false.
[/literalist pedant]
Yes, exactly.
It’s like the TV Trope of someone who doesn’t want kids finding out they can’t have them.