I just had my attention drawn to several very long threads by and about the poster Umkay who was apparently lying about being a quadruplegic. But I’m having a hard time tracking down where the proof was brought to light. I saw that there were numerous telling similarities between her posts and those of a poster on another board named Sezyoo. Was that the thing that brought Umkay down? Or was there something more telling that was found?
RTFTs I know, but they’re like 20 pages long… I’m hoping people who were actually participating can point me in the right direction.
Also, didn’t we have someone posting a few years ago who claimed to be “locked inside” i.e. unable to move anything but his eyes or something like that? Did that turn out to be a hoax? I always figured it probably was but didn’t follow the thread.
The jackbooted thugs that run this place don’t have to present their evidence to us. This isn’t a court of law. Marley or one of the others became convinced and that’s enough. If Umkay was for real I’m sure she could have easily sent in proof via email and it would have all been cleared up. It wasn’t. I for one have no problem with how it went down.
Happy well adjusted rich quad has 2 threads going and a lot of fans, there are some oddities though most notably her posting speed, pretty fast for someone who can’t type all easily brushed away
Allusions of health trouble, she disappeared for a few days
Thread appears from her supposed brother who claims that she died, people are butthurt
Umkay is resurrected claims she has been in the Hospital, Pit thread begins along with locking and unlocking of threads and banning of supposed brother, lot of butthurt
Pit thread gets very pit like and one or more smart Dopers find Sezyou on a what to expect when you are expecting site, on that board she had been discovered as a sock, troll whatever by someone realizing the her pic was a fake, she used the same bit high quad and other details but the killer was her word usage and abbreviations very very similar
Mods get notified, Umkay gets banned we do some real bbqing in the pit, mea culpas are sent etc
I think the Pit thread is worth reading as a kind of novella
Hope that sums it all up and I got it all in the right order and place but that is about it
As I recall it, umkay never once posted to the board again after the connection to the previous board was brought to light, which is pretty damning in and of itself.
The very short version is that we were convinced umkay was the same person who was banned for pretending to be a cheerful young quadriplegic at another site. I don’t think there wasn’t one single piece of evidence that convinced us. Reading the posts it was just obvious they were the same faker. umkay did try to start a second account here with a different story and was quickly banned.
There have been news articles about blinkie, by the way. I think a few of them were linked to in the Ask the Guy with Locked In Syndrome thread.
I forgot about that, in retrospect there was a lot of that kind of thing. The Air Force Test Pilot Brother should have set off a bell or two. Someone should have called BS on the sex as well.
Well the Umkay is dead thread really set off my alarm bells and she suddenly started to post in that thread saying “I’m not dead, this was a hoax”. I said something like "glad you’re not dead, the whole death thing was very suspicious and then she started to protest a little too much and some other posters started to look into her a bit more.
I think a poster from her previous board emailed us or followed her here and said j’accuse.
Long story short: this board is easy to troll (and is full of liberal douches; coincidence?). Hide yo’ mama, hide yo’ sister, hide yo’ husband, cause they trolling E’RYBODY up in here.
Actually, it would take more than just a single one of us to be convinced in a case like this. We do argue this stuff back and forth, and if there are serious objections, we try to resolve them before taking action.
And the jackboots are optional, even if we all look fabulous in them.
Oh, why oh why did I go back to look at those threads. Feelin’ so much second-hand embarrassment right now, I could choke. Let’s just lock this thread and stop bringin’ that shit up, man. At least, let’s not bring this up while we still have threads on the front pages of this forum where we claim to all have IQ’s over 160 and SATS of 2400.
As I recall, Blinkie also recounted his story in Teemings (link). Not that that, on its face, means a lot; but it contained details that could be easily corroborated. Including his real-life name.