Away/Back thread

[Callaway]

What?

"Steve-0" is a sockpuppet parodying Steve-O by imitating his profile.  Note the sockpuppet user group and the number 0 as opposed to the capital letter O.  Also, the custom titles are different. 

Odeon told the sockpuppet's owner to use his own account.

[odeon]

What?

I was talking to the sockpuppet.

[Osensitive1]

Got it. Thanks. Thought sockpuppets aren't allowed.

[odeon]

They used to be and right now the situation is a bit unclear. I personally think sockpuppets are mostly cowardly when used like this. The parody is usually lost on everyone but the people fighting.

[Osensitive1]

Thought you once said they aren't allowed because members are allowed to change their usernames, but could be remembering wrong.

[odeon]

I can't claim I remember for certain.

Perhaps a more important question to ask is what you think (meaning the membership)?

[Osensitive1]

Don't want one, but not bothered if others do. Only interested because I often misunderstand how things work here.

[odeon]

I can't decide what I think about it, tbh.

[Adam]

I don't think there's anything wrong with sockpuppets

I was confused by the Steve-0 one at first, didn't notice lol

But I think it should be allowed. can be funny sometimes

[richard]

i thought that sockpuppet was hilarious. a few times i actually thought it was steve-o

untill i looked at the post count, to make shure 

[Loupgarou]

This term "sockpuppets" which I just learned recently (yes, I am technologically challenged ), is veddy, veddy scary .

I have such a tenuous hold on my identity as it is. I would not want someone mimicking me whether it be in good humour or not. I would feel.......well........violated, I guess. It is good to feel that you have some measure of safety. In saying that I am no fool to the transient nature of the internets.

If someone where to use your identity irl it would be called fraud. Even if the identity is made up for the sakes of anonymity on the internets. I mean, where does it end?

I think I  been taking too many painkillers with "making you pass out" properties

Loup

[Osensitive1]

Always figured people who posted photos aren't concerned with that sort of thing, either that or the photos aren't really them. Had you pegged as one of those, Loup.

[Loupgarou]

Sorry O, my brain is fuzzy. Are you saying that I would post pictures of myself that aren't me, or are you saying the opposite?

Loup

[Osensitive1]

Never really know if people's photos are real and don't care much. Only saying it doesn't make sense to publish photos on the internet if there's any real concern over identity theft.

[Adam]

You can't live your whole life over worries like that though.

Me I don't really worry about if people are gonna impersonate me, but if someone does post their pics it doesn't necessarily mean they don't worry about that

There are lots of things I don't want to happen. Doesn't mean I live my life around trying to avoid them