Soooooooo I have been on this here board thing for a couple of weeks, and I'm starting to trust you people to some degree.
I noticed that most of you seem to know each other pretty well, as is normal and logical from being on a board together over time. My question is, how closely is wise and prudent to guard details of one's personal life and identity? Not knowing, I have been careful not to reveal anything about my family life, hobbies, or work. I figure my eating habits and education are unlikely to give too much away because lots of people take math classes and eat a lot of olives. My name is generic enough. Am I basically on the right track, or am I being needlessly paranoid?
LMNO has my email address, and from which could easily track down everything there is to know about me, but the letters LMNO seem inherently trustworthy.
Oh poor foolish you. LMNO is fapping outside your place of work right now, posting from a Wifi enabled laptop.
As for guarding details, it depends. Firstly, if you want anonymity from random online peeps, that isn't too hard. Its just being aware enough not to give out really personal details. If you want anonymity from the State's personal stormtroopers, forget it right now, because you're not. If you intend to go out trolling, it might be worth picking up generic emails with fake names and learn how to proxy, but beyond that and giving away obvious details (the street where you live, friends names, your actual employers etc) you should be OK.
::fapfapfap::
Never post anything on the Internet, if you're really concerned about it becoming public knowledge.
Otherwise... I'd agree with Cain's sage advice.
Hahahaha OK. As for LMNO, my plan worked <group fap>
I am on several other forums, and my job involves marketing shit on the internet, so my personal information is already out there, in a professional (if you can call it that) context. I honestly don't mind at all if you guys trenchcoat around in front of my house, and the MIB already know who I am, so that's no biggie. I guess I'm partly thinking of Roger's situation, but again... I know it's pretty easy for Joe Schmoe to find someone's personal information with very little to go on.
I troll rarely and carefully, and generally at total random in ways that make me giggle, so I doubt that would be an issue.
I guess the only people I'm worried about are people who randomly hate everyone who posts on this board, and I'm wondering if that's ever even a problem.
If not, well shit, I might as well start bitching about the mundane shit that plagues my personal life. :lulz:
Oh, another thing that brought this up in my mind is that I noticed a couple of people posting about what they do for work, and it was pretty obvious that they're not worried about someone tracking them down... even though Aini's fire-eating is pretty distinctive. Oh, and she posted a picture, too. So I guess she's not at all worried about being hunted down like a dog by a horde of angry baby-eating Christians.
the assholes who post here usually can't be bothered to mess with you personally. There are a lot of trolls here, but they generally don't shit where they eat.
I encourage you, however, to post a pic of you from IRL so we know what kind of fingerlicking mouthbreather you are. The WOMP cabal demands it!
Like Cain said, I wouldn't worry too hard about your PI. If you're already a savvy net user, you're aware of the risks and dangers of telling strangers your True Name.
I'm fairly certain that none of the regulars here are going to mess with you unless you really, really ask for it. This tiff between Roger and Tent which seems to have spilled IRL is an irregularity and certainly not commonplace around here.
Haha OK cool! I can relax my ninja stance! Also I will post a pic later. Wait, is it a trap?
(http://static.velvetcache.org/pages/2007/5/25/its-a-trap/tarp-30198.jpg)
Quote from: Nigel on November 29, 2007, 09:44:16 PM
Oh, another thing that brought this up in my mind is that I noticed a couple of people posting about what they do for work, and it was pretty obvious that they're not worried about someone tracking them down... even though Aini's fire-eating is pretty distinctive. Oh, and she posted a picture, too. So I guess she's not at all worried about being hunted down like a dog by a horde of angry baby-eating Christians.
actually, it was a fire breathing picture posted to augment a point. I'm not too worried about people tracking me down because my info is out there because of the nature of my primary business. I personally won't post my phone number to my website because I don't want random phone calls.
Besides, I'm a cat girl... I can claw back at them.
Although some of the jerks around here will find out your real info just so they can Google your name and see what sort of a loser you were when you were 14. (This sulky expression is directed YOU, Payne :p)
Quote from: Nigel on November 29, 2007, 09:53:04 PM
Haha OK cool! I can relax my ninja stance! Also I will post a pic later. Wait, is it a trap?
You will be given a gift from the gods if you post a pic. Srsly. I speak from experience. Most people here have a pic on file in the annals of the WOMP repository.
That reminds me...Payne promised to show me some of your poetry.
Quote from: Nigel on November 29, 2007, 09:53:04 PM
Haha OK cool! I can relax my ninja stance! Also I will post a pic later. Wait, is it a trap?
No, of course not, what would ever give you that idea?
:evil:
Oh god no sweet merciful fuck please no :x
I did go in and delete it, but I'm sure he's smart enough to have taken screen caps or something.
YE JERKS!
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on November 29, 2007, 09:56:51 PM
Although some of the jerks around here will find out your real info just so they can Google your name and see what sort of a loser you were when you were 14. (This sulky expression is directed YOU, Payne :p)
Quote from: Nigel on November 29, 2007, 09:53:04 PM
Haha OK cool! I can relax my ninja stance! Also I will post a pic later. Wait, is it a trap?
You will be given a gift from the gods if you post a pic. Srsly. I speak from experience. Most people here have a pic on file in the annals of the WOMP repository.
Will... will the "gift" be my face Photoshopped into a composite image of George Michael assraping a wombat?
Oh goodie!
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on November 29, 2007, 09:56:51 PM
Although some of the jerks around here will find out your real info just so they can Google your name and see what sort of a loser you were when you were 14. (This sulky expression is directed YOU, Payne :p)
Quote from: Nigel on November 29, 2007, 09:53:04 PM
Haha OK cool! I can relax my ninja stance! Also I will post a pic later. Wait, is it a trap?
You will be given a gift from the gods if you post a pic. Srsly. I speak from experience. Most people here have a pic on file in the anals of the WOMP repository.
fixed for added truthiness.
I change my IRL name and adress every week.
I don't even know who I fucking am.
oh noes I just relized I have a more stable life online then in IRL. :x
i put personal info everywhere and i dont care, which might be stupid, but oh well
I no longer have D-Cups poetry :'( It were accidently deleted, along with an entire swathe of WOMPs greatest hits.
I have a few new MSPaint resources primed and ready for Nigel posting his pic.
It had better be a good pic or I will srsly hunt you down.
Just an OT moment (I WILL by lynched for this):
Full names, DOB, address, SSN, etc., are things to avoid.
Also; check your local laws as far as personal / credit rating protection.
Not perfect, but covers most bases. This is what I do since I'm fairly easy to track down from this forum. I'm no master on the subject. Not saying anything you don't want coming back to you goes a long way too.
Also, check your email and usernames against certain key phrases (for example "Nigel Discordianism address") in various search engines to see what turns up. After all, if you can find it out, someone else can.
I know there is no way to find me based on my nigel-y name. But if anyone got hold of my real first name it would be instant doom. I mean, inasmuch as they could send me a postcard or something. My parents cursed me with a very distinctive first name. :( Damn hippies!
Quote from: Nigel on November 30, 2007, 12:20:32 AM
I know there is no way to find me based on my nigel-y name. But if anyone got hold of my real first name it would be instant doom. I mean, inasmuch as they could send me a postcard or something. My parents cursed me with a very distinctive first name. :( Damn hippies!
Daffodil Moonchylde Smith, is that you?
BUSTED
:lulz:
Quote from: Nigel on November 29, 2007, 09:19:20 PM
Soooooooo I have been on this here board thing for a couple of weeks, and I'm starting to trust you people to some degree.
I noticed that most of you seem to know each other pretty well, as is normal and logical from being on a board together over time. My question is, how closely is wise and prudent to guard details of one's personal life and identity? Not knowing, I have been careful not to reveal anything about my family life, hobbies, or work. I figure my eating habits and education are unlikely to give too much away because lots of people take math classes and eat a lot of olives. My name is generic enough. Am I basically on the right track, or am I being needlessly paranoid?
LMNO has my email address, and from which could easily track down everything there is to know about me, but the letters LMNO seem inherently trustworthy.
Here kitty kitty kitty . . .
umm... meow?
I have nothing to worry about seeing that everyone knows that I'm
13/f/cali
with interests including older men, and being kidnapped via windowless white vans.
Quote from: mian tiao noodle on November 29, 2007, 11:26:57 PM
i put personal info everywhere and i dont care, which might be stupid, but oh well
But, strangely enough, no nude pictures. Yet.
I've posted about my job but I would never post the actual place where I work. And it's more to protect my Agency than myself. It might be bad PR for them to have someone with Discordian tendencies in their midst. And I don't worry about anyone here trying to track me down. Because they'd have to come to fucking Maine to do that.
Ugh. Maine. *shudder*
I've been hanging out lately with a guy who grew up in Maine. He gets so defensive when I refer to the natural immunity against the cold he has developed due to his peoples' interbreeding with moose and Canadians. He shouldn't be ashamed of that!
By all the glories of Facebook, Suu, Richter, and Noodle have access to an alarming amount of information about me.
Now that Payne has lost my shitty early teen years angstathons in verse (hail Eris!), I feel safe from all but the aforementioned three, and Cram. :wink:
Although I suppose now that PopeTom knows that I work somewhere between Kenmore Square and the BU Bridge, he could just walk into every office between the two, hollering "ARE YOU D-CUP?!" at every woman he sees. So perhaps I'm not safe... :eek:
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on November 30, 2007, 02:23:23 PM
And I don't worry about anyone here trying to track me down. Because they'd have to come to fucking Maine to do that.
YOU KNOW, my sister lives in Maine...... :evil:
Please give her my condolences.
:lulz:
THAT is what she says all the time!
Y'all don't know how nice you have it. Come to the STL sometime, it's a shithole not quite worthy of a visit!
i tried to keep my personal stuff off this board, but it's kinda hard for details not to slip in if you're just having a nice chat with people.
like Cram said, i don't worry too much about the regulars here (most of them, at least ;-) ), but it's a public forum, so whatever you post here is viewable and findable by the evil bad smelly outside world.
but i think there's only a few people here that know the right details to connect all the dots and track me back to a real name (and possibly address, but i'm not really sure how you'd find that with just my real name, as i'm pretty sure i'm not listed anywhere).
and LOL googling just my address reveals that my flatmate has simply posted his full name, address, birthdate etc on a "portfolio/personal site" he had to make for his school once :-D
also, googling "triple-zero discord", reveals all sorts of weird stuff. but not about me (except for the links to posts on this board of course).
I was going to post my picture last night but I had a whiskey-drinking date, and now also I have to go swimming. So it will have to wait!
My personal information is allll over the net. Srsly, it's ridiculous. But I guess I don't really care that much or I wouldn't have put it out there, so whatever! I'll just have to be careful to not do anything awful enough that would make people want to track me down and gang-rape my shrubbery.
Some people will do that for fun.
Srsly. I know some of them. Wanna see a NSFW site with those sort of people?
Do I really have a choice?
But seriously, SHRUBBERY? Isn't that poky?
(http://somniphobia.com/src/1196483992717.jpg)
www.partyvan.info
Have fun now.
I totally saw an erection!
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on November 30, 2007, 02:34:11 PM
Although I suppose now that PopeTom knows that I work somewhere between Kenmore Square and the BU Bridge,
Actually I didn't know the scope was that narrow until I read this post. I had Just thought you were someplace between Kenmore Sq. and Central Sq.
But on a lighter note I've known LMNO for years now and I can speak from experience that eventually you build up a resistance to the ruffies.
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on November 30, 2007, 02:34:11 PM
he could just walk into every office between the two, hollering "ARE YOU D-CUP?!" at every woman he sees. So perhaps I'm not safe... :eek:
Could?
Quote from: PopeTom on December 03, 2007, 12:56:12 AM
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on November 30, 2007, 02:34:11 PM
Although I suppose now that PopeTom knows that I work somewhere between Kenmore Square and the BU Bridge,
Actually I didn't know the scope was that narrow until I read this post. I had Just thought you were someplace between Kenmore Sq. and Central Sq.
But on a lighter note I've known LMNO for years now and I can speak from experience that eventually you build up a resistance to the ruffies.
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on November 30, 2007, 02:34:11 PM
he could just walk into every office between the two, hollering "ARE YOU D-CUP?!" at every woman he sees. So perhaps I'm not safe... :eek:
Could?
Did?
Quote from: Khara on November 30, 2007, 02:40:47 PM
:lulz:
THAT is what she says all the time!
Y'all don't know how nice you have it. Come to the STL sometime, it's a shithole not quite worthy of a visit!
umm...
when was the last time the temperature was 20 below zero in the Lou?
shit, I'm jealous of the mild and temperate climate that RWHN enjoys in Southern Maine.
Quote from: saint aini on December 03, 2007, 01:58:20 AM
Quote from: PopeTom on December 03, 2007, 12:56:12 AM
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on November 30, 2007, 02:34:11 PM
Although I suppose now that PopeTom knows that I work somewhere between Kenmore Square and the BU Bridge,
Actually I didn't know the scope was that narrow until I read this post. I had Just thought you were someplace between Kenmore Sq. and Central Sq.
But on a lighter note I've known LMNO for years now and I can speak from experience that eventually you build up a resistance to the ruffies.
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on November 30, 2007, 02:34:11 PM
he could just walk into every office between the two, hollering "ARE YOU D-CUP?!" at every woman he sees. So perhaps I'm not safe... :eek:
Could?
Did?
Done!
Quote from: PopeTom on December 03, 2007, 12:56:12 AM
But on a lighter note I've known LMNO for years now and I can speak from experience that eventually you build up a resistance to the ruffies.
Srsly. I've had to switch to GBH just to give myself a fighting chance.
I just happen to have a supply of aqua dots.
scary part is, I'm not kidding.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on December 03, 2007, 03:02:46 AM
umm...
when was the last time the temperature was 20 below zero in the Lou?
shit, I'm jealous of the mild and temperate climate that RWHN enjoys in Southern Maine.
We don't have it that cold, true, but you'll still get shot at 10F.
If the temps got to 20 below here, I would leave. Hell I want to leave anyway.....
Khara~
.....misses FL bad today...
man.
you've got shitty taste in places.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on December 03, 2007, 05:38:16 PM
man.
you've got shitty taste in places.
Hey, where I was in FL was beautiful! Expensive but beautiful!
As for STL, eh it wasn't my first choice, but the job offer was better than the one in TN.
I do not come with the built-in cold immunity that Mainers have, as my people have not interbred with moose and Canadians. Boston is plenty cold enough for me! Also, windy. Also, fekkin' public transit.
I take offense, madam.
we do NOT interbreed with Canadians, we interbreed with Quebecois.
there is a difference, and it is an important one.
Quebecois, for all of their eccentricities, are actual PEOPLE.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on December 03, 2007, 05:52:42 PM
I take offense, madam.
we do NOT interbreed with Canadians, we interbreed with Quebecois.
there is a difference, and it is an important one.
Quebecois, for all of their eccentricities, are actual PEOPLE.
Fair enough.
Also, you can use the quality pick-up line:
Person attempting to pick-up: "Do you have a little French in you?"
Befuddled Quebeccer: "Uh... yes."
Person attempting to pick-up: "Would you like to dilute it?"
I hate Florida
and all you northerners that come down here.
my city double in population during the winter months and makes driving a total bitch.
for what it's worth, most of us northerners hate the Floridiots that come here in the summer WAY more than you hate the snowbirds.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on December 03, 2007, 05:52:42 PM
I take offense, madam.
we do NOT interbreed with Canadians, we interbreed with Quebecois.
there is a difference, and it is an important one.
Quebecois, for all of their eccentricities, are actual PEOPLE.
Heh, I'm actually from a long line of interbreeding Quebecois. You wouldn't know it by my politeness.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on December 03, 2007, 05:52:42 PM
I take offense, madam.
we do NOT interbreed with Canadians, we interbreed with Quebecois.
there is a difference, and it is an important one.
Quebecois, for all of their armpit hair, are actual PEOPLE.
Fixed, if they are anything like the real French.
no, they're better.
Okay...My turn.
...I miss Florida today in this 30-something degree wet raw excuse of a shitty state known as Rhode Island. Especially when I busted my ass walking to work this morning and cursed the city of Providence for not salting the sidewalks.
There.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on December 03, 2007, 06:06:49 PM
for what it's worth, most of us northerners hate the Floridiots that come here in the summer WAY more than you hate the snowbirds.
Can believe that.
Actually, the Canadians are mild compared to the NY and CT tourists that RI get's flooded with.
My mom actually got in fistfights in Stop and Shop a couple years back. It was AWESOME.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on November 29, 2007, 09:19:20 PM
LMNO has my email address, and from which could easily track down everything there is to know about me, but the letters LMNO seem inherently trustworthy.
And nobody heard from Nigel, ever again. :cry:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 30, 2009, 10:00:21 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on November 29, 2007, 09:19:20 PM
LMNO has my email address, and from which could easily track down everything there is to know about me, but the letters LMNO seem inherently trustworthy.
And nobody heard from Nigel, ever again. :cry:
:lulz:
Truth: LMNO actually killed Nigel and retained her account as an alt.