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WinsomeDefiance -> RE: Are the message boards worthwhile? (11/12/2015 11:00:53 AM)
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I'm not even addressing the OP - this is more of a fast reply regarding socks.
Personally, I hold myself accountable using the same pseudonym that I use at munches, play parties, with friends I know IRL. I've done this for the 20 years I've used this name. I know that when I post something it is here for people I know and respect and care for to read at their whim at any given time from now unto whenever.
This is always in the back of my mind to remind me to present myself in the way I want my friends, family and associates to see me. As I've been in court before, testifying on behalf of my lifestyle and as a board member of our group - I always keep in the back of my mind "will I be able to repeat myself without shame or remorse, as a witness in a court of law?"
So, that said; I do not use socks to post. I personally think it a bit cowardly to post as as a sock - except, perhaps, in an instance where personal information shared may be harmful to another individual and a sock is used to share that information to protect oneself and another.
I get that a large portion of people just come on here to mess around for entertainment purposes and do not share in my very personal belief system . I get that some people make "new" names to mess with people. Apparently it is a source of attention seeking, amusement, whatever. It doesn't bother me. I follow the, "when someone shows you who they are, believe them," way of thinking and like it when people show me right out of the gate I can just scroll right on by their names without wasting time to read their silliness.
Every so often, a situation arises where the sock-maker is so prolific a poster; they begin to cause excessive dissension and confusion on the boards and interrupt the natural flow and evolution of a thread. So, I also get why socks are so despised. Especially, illiterate attention whores who have numerous socks spouting unfathomable jibberish repetitively enough to be easily recognized.
I don't get why they do it. Seems a foolish waste of ones energies, but meh. At least most of the time the time they are so predictable.
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