# User Kaitlyn has been banned
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [February 25, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830 "2005-02-25T05:44:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/1 "2005-02-25T05:44:35Z")
User Kaitlyn has been banned for having (by her own admission) repeatedly lied concerning details of her life at the SDMB. While we encourage all our members to realize that things you read at the SDMB should be viewed with all due circumspection, we do not want our posters making up long involved stories out of whole cloth, over a period of months, and fabricating a “fake identity”.
Please remember that any disagreement / discussion of administrator decisions should be placed in The BBQ Pit forum.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/2 "2005-02-25T06:24:42Z")
[Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=303697)
Outed: [1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5880782&postcount=108), [2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5880782&postcount=111), [3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5880782&postcount=127), [4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5880782&postcount=131).
[Apology](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5882323&postcount=134) and [last post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5882323&postcount=180) by **Kaitlyn**.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/3 "2005-02-25T06:32:35Z")
My coding seems to be all screwed up right now and I can’t figure out why.
The first link’s right though. Just go there and look at posts 108, 111, 127, 131, 134, and 180 for the Cliff’s Notes.
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### Author:  [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/4 "2005-02-25T08:00:38Z")
Sigh.
Wow. This is the first person who’s been banned that I’m actually going to miss.
A fellow comic book fan, too.
\>Insert _Identity Crisis_ joke here.\<
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/5 "2005-02-25T08:42:02Z")
That was…strange. I was just about to tease her/him - I’m lost for pronouns now - about knowing a lot about comics for a chick, too. If anyone asks, I saw through the whole sorry charade the moment I read any of his/her posts. Least I never flirted…
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/6 "2005-02-25T08:45:02Z")
If you’re serious about having seen through the charade, why didn’t you point it out to the rest of us?
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### Author:  [@Arwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwin)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/7 "2005-02-25T08:52:23Z")
Wow.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/8 "2005-02-25T08:54:06Z")
I think the “if anyone asks” is meant to indicate it’s a rueful joke at his own expense.
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/9 "2005-02-25T09:54:09Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#):
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> I think the “if anyone asks” is meant to indicate it’s a rueful joke at his own expense.
Yeah. You tend to believe people are who they say they are, especially on this board. Like I said, strange: never really interacted with - screw pronouns - **Kaitlyn** that much, so I don’t feel betrayed, but she seemed like a totally cool person who’d been through a lot of tough stuff and come out brave and cracking jokes. I was cheering for her. I think everyone was. Then to find out his threads were a bunch of elaborate bullshit to get attention - I dunno, I’m just weirded out.
Now I’m gonna eye _everyone_ suspiciously: you got _proof_ you’re gay, **matt**? I kid - it’s late and I’m going to bed.
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### Author:  [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/10 "2005-02-25T10:38:13Z")
I guess I should have known that in the real world, a helpful, supportive principal like that does not exist.
Sigh. I miss him a lot more than I miss Kaitlyn.
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### Author:  [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/11 "2005-02-25T10:44:19Z")
That’s not true. It’ve worked with several. i just didn’t think there were any in Texas.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/12 "2005-02-25T13:45:28Z")
I guess the statement in the famous Peter Steiner [New Yorker cartoon](http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/idog.html) is not true on SDMB: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
Be sure to scroll down to the “Reality Check” on that link.
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### Author:  [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/13 "2005-02-25T14:06:04Z")
Just read the thread. Lieing for 4 years about who you are? How pathetic.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/14 "2005-02-25T14:08:41Z")
Oh, man, I’m sorry \*\*Kaitlyn \*\* got banned too. And mad, too, at **Kaitlyn** , for tricking us. Getting us to care.
:mad: ☹
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### Author:  [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/15 "2005-02-25T14:10:25Z")
You know, I read every single one of **Kaitlyn’s** threads I could find, although I don’t think we exchanged more than two words. As someone who spent a lot of her twenties wondering about her own sexuality, I saw Kaitlyn as a role model to be who you are, and be proud of that.
Now I’m feeling a strange sense of disappointment. Not anger, not annoyance…just disappointment.
Strange.
E.
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### Author:  [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/16 "2005-02-25T14:32:07Z")
I thought she/he seemed like an attention whore. That’s why all the posting about the trannie stuff. I don’t think a real person going through that would be so elaborate in talking about it. I could be wrong, though.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/17 "2005-02-25T14:46:05Z")
I am seriously disillusioned. I tend to take things, and people, at face-value, until proven wrong. Boy, were we wrong! ☹
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/18 "2005-02-25T15:03:34Z")
I don’t know what good speculation does anybody at this point, but here I go anyway. I just don’t think there’s _any_ way some dude on the internet could pull this off without serious knowledge of the issues at hand. Of all the places on the internet, and I mean that quite literally, wouldn’t you think that the SDMB would be the very last membership group to be fooled by a fake? I mean, if I decided tomorrow to become Julie Chitwood on the boards, I’d be found out in less than an hour from when I started pretending. I doubt I could make one post on the subject, even if I did a little background research, without coming across as an obvious fake. And yet **Kaitlyn** fooled everyone, right? I don’t follow MPSIMS all that much, but was there ever anyone who raised even the slightest bit of concern regarding the truth value of **Kaitlyn’s** story? You have to figure that whoever, uh, _that person_ was, they were connected in some significant way to some real life gender confusion. If that’s true, then nobody need feel ashamed for caring – even if it wasn’t **Kaitlyn** whose life you were hearing about, or even if it was a doctored version of that poster’s life, or even sheer fantasy about what that poster thinks the future’s going to be like, what you all were feeling was real. Maybe it’s more like getting involved in a really good movie than it is like a real life interaction, but one way or another, you were learning about the way the real world works. The fact that Bambi’s mom was just a drawing doesn’t really mean that you weren’t really sad to find out she was on the hood of some dude’s car. And that’s because there are other Bambis out there.
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### Author:  [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/19 "2005-02-25T15:49:08Z")
So, why was **Can of Pineapples** banned? Was he/she just a sock puppet set up to expose Kaitlyn?
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/user-kaitlyn-has-been-banned/291830/20 "2005-02-25T15:58:45Z")
True, Jimmy, but don’t be surprised if you are the victim of a pile-on because some people here insist that only the real Bambi can speak of experiencing that.
Still, I’m not sure I agree with the “don’t misrepresent yourself that flagrantly” rule. If everybody’s personna were as close to real life as mine is this place could get pretty boring.
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