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Carla G.
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September 19, 2006
"Alter Egos" on Gather--Who are your favorites?
November 18, 2008 02:36 PM EST
(Updated: November 18, 2008 02:40 PM EST)
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As many of us have speculated, there are more and more Gather members adopting "alter egos". They use them to post comments supporting their articles and also to leave nasty, insulting comments on other peoples' articles that they dislike. They hide behind their fake names and icons. I have been the target of many of them and have some ideas of who on Gather are using alters. How about you? Who do you think has adopted alters? Let's bring these people out of the closet, shall we?
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"sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me"????
I liked to call the 'Acorn' bunch.....the ALTER NUTS!
Before I go off all POSTAL back at one of those F-rightwing nuts I just think of the BUDWEISER commercials and go check their BORN on dates! Pretty obvious that someone who has been here only a few days or weeks yet seems to KNOW exactly what everyone else thinks or writes is a bat crap crazy loonytoon that is just trying to prop up their own opinions. I just yawn and think................I'm just a-moving on.................nuthin' to see or do there!
Ya know I was REALLY not a happy camper after COUP2K or after the B S re-play in 2004 and THAT is an UNDERstatement. We got soooo much crap and attitude dumped on us over their glorious 'W' and his band of robber barons won that it was both cruel and inhumane. No big surprise that that was then exactly how they ran our country!
What WAS it they told US to DO? Oh, I remember...."Just move ON" and "MOVE ON" we did......maybe they aren't as dumb as we think they are!
Umm...that's a military thing...you know...about how long the soldiers can expect to be in Iraq.
Hmmmmmmmm, I know...................I KNOW but it ain't Mi.............it ain't MI.......it ain't MI!
Of course...me too. You get real, uncluttered lunacy there! :)
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
It's interesting that the AEs are usually even more virulent and strident than the original poster.
I've seen lots of posts by a "Mari" but don't know who that is.
...although I think celebrating alters goes against the purposes of this post/article.
Sorry Carla!
As for Candace,years ago she was the nicest person you would meet here ,so maybe you are right she is an alter.
I'd rather believe that than to think she lost her mind.
What ever happened to modern day pubis,bret w,huge ass,nanci l and,crazy carol (everything in caps)l?
(Had to re-post my comment: can't afford to give credence to the accusation of poor spelling skills.)
This is absolutely delicious.
For some reason, alters LOVETH ME (I'm ROFL), and . . . I shall delight in partaking.
Happy Birthday, Ron W.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and
Carla, you ROCK, Babeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
Of course people with delusions of adequacy are so often misled.
I get a connection request nearly every day. I pass them by, and move on to the valid ones.
Interesting giveaway, Carla is that they actually DO bring out some of their freakish alters from years gone by, like 2006, and there are some that "come out" from 2007.
In other words, not all of them are "new hires". ROFL.
If you think I'm so good at this, it's because I've had so many knocking at my door. I've even a few who think that I do not know about them; I just one up on them . . .
He accepts their connection requests, and places them in a category of
"Not them".
It is so they never get involved in anything that he shares with the people that he really likes, and interests him.
They get nothing.
However, he has a permanent list of the idiot alters, and is one up on them, as well as being able to . . .keep an eye on them.
Otis and Opal are exceptions. They are for fun. Plus, they are kitty cats. Cats RULE!
Hate and lies will always be confronted by me and me alone.
I don't type one damn thing I won't say to anyone's face therefore I don't need an alter and everyone I confront over their stupidity and hate..........................well boo-hoo.
I don't have the time or energy to deal with attention seeking alters or create alters of my own-- I do have a real life that I genuinely enjoy living.
Multiple gather identities may be a symptom of Multiple Personality Disorder, not schizophrenia.
There, I feel better.
Are alters even allowed here?
Is it against TOS, to go around pretending to be someone you're not?
I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't make your list. But here's my "10" for you. Have a great day.
There are people here with "alter egos" ? ? ?
well girl I never...................hahaha
We are not permitted to abuse, threaten, attack, or malign others here; basically, alternate identities are subject to the same TOS as anyone registered under a real name or an original identity.
I am a watered-down version of my namesake, necessarily, but my main purpose is the creative challenge of speaking in an authentic voice.
I don't have it all figured out. However, I must be "ouching" someone. Right after the discussion on this thread with you last night, another one popped up on one of my articles.
I'll send you an email. We mustn't let them think we are smarter than they.
You provided some very valuable information, and I thank you for it. But Gather also clarified that it is okay to use alters for satire, such as the Subaheim-Wurbizers, or Otis and Opal.
There is no intention to deceive or mislead there -- it is just for fun. What I take exception to are those alters who pretend to be actual people, such as . . .say, a (pulling a random name) Sally B. Smith, with a full profile, and then proceeding to fool a community when they are really another person here on Gather, not desirous to reveal that identity's true feelings on a particular issue, because they don't want their true feelings associated with the REAL THEM.
In other words, they want to "express themself", while keeping their original identity pristine. That is one reason for these alters, although there are others.
"An alter on gather is someone who spins off as a different person/personality to leave messages under a different name/identity."
Sorry, I misunderstood. I just assumed it was someone using a fake identity. My apologies.
Alternate identities existed long before then, and for a while there was a policy of deleting them, if not preventing them via IP tagging... though rumor had it that this policy was unevenly administered.
My thoughts on the matter, predictably, are that anyone posting to an internet site is going to employ some layer of deceit, either actively, for self-protection (which makes good sense) or passively, through self-deception, just as in reality. In presenting ourselves we choose what we reveal, just as we choose what clothing to wear before leaving the house. The issue is really in the motivation.
And, I even went to Kevin to help me answer it also.
Kevin said, that you can have more than one account, but, you have to use a different email address. And, you can't use the account to get points for the original account. You have to use that separate account in accordance with the TOS.
She's never left any nasty comments on my posts; just funny joke-type stuff. And no, I'm not Lois Lane.
These people are cowards. It is the whole purpose behind the the alters -- to hide.
The Internet is one of the best havens in the world to do just that -- HIDE.
Just to illustrate the point,
most of my working career has involved some sort of involvement with the public -- either over the phone, or face-to-face.
While over the phone, I was restricted in what I was able to say and/or do, while the public, aka the consumer was really able to be quite abusive, but again, only to a certain extent. Experience taught me how to CONTROL them. Oh, they were so "authoritative", and so "commanding", big bad people who did a good deal of big bad talk . . .that is, over the phone. What they did not know was, because of their "big bad talk", there were occasions when I used MY authority to make them come into the office when it was not really necessary. Why? Well, they were so big and so bad, I wanted to MEET THEM.
Guess what happened when I got to meet "Mr." or "Ms." Big Bad Talker. Wimps. Every time, the rhetoric of being big and bad was gone and there they were -- little scaredy cats, not at all what you would have expected by the conversations had over the phone. In my mind, I was thinking,
"Please, please, give me a reason!"
But no. Just the nicest, politest people that you would ever want to meet. It's the same thing here. These people with these alters are mere cowards, that's what.
It was the same way with my co-workers. Carla, we knew. We all knew, that the only reason for the "big, bad" talk, was because they "couldn't get it up" in the real world.
Now, the ones that I would be concerned with, are the ones who -- as the saying goes -- speak softly, and carry the big stick, like Barack Obama. Notice how he did not initiate the smear campaigns, but said if attacked, that he would defend himself? Those are the ones to watch out for, in terms of bravery and courage. The others? They're just itty bitty scaredy cats who have found a medium where they may stick their chests out, probably for the first time in their lives.
Telling a lie over and over doesn't make it true sweety.
Why would I indicate your hateful self could be Carla?
And as far as me being Tony s ,well that assumption is just plain stupid.
Now as for your alter mari, you really should take your meds for your multi-personality disorder.