through the looking glass

[autodidactic]

Apparently, for the past four years, I have been being impersonated by a being named "tamp" on Sensible Erection.

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[molasses]

how fucked up!

[gillen]

I'll go you one stranger. I recognize the OTHER pictue on that profile as by a friend of mine, and she's alphabetically next after you on my friendslist, avphibes

http://www.podgallery.com/index.cfm/hurl/imageid=13785/action=showimage/sortby=dateadded/orderby=desc/oldAction=artwork/oldMsgId=1165

[gillen]

I should clarify that I don't think she's your troll. Not her style at all.

But I'm trying to find links between you two. You both are friends with purgatorius, so it might be someone off Brodie's flist too.

[ignusfaatus]

I believe that saint marck himself is making these "users" to make his site appear to be heavily trafficked. Then he can sell the site off to someone else at a profit... or so he thinks.
really.
Who hosts the website? You could call the hoster (before we discussed who registered this domain)... the host of the website (maybe lunarpages?) should have IP logs that will prove how many of the sock puppets come from the same IP.
Do you know anyone with a lunar pages account? If you do, you can post an image on the chatty thing and watch the IP addresses and know for sure who posts what.

[autodidactic]

saint marck is cool He's relieved to know that I am not tamp, but apparently he believed this to be the case for years. I will have to do a lot of personality damage control. Luckily, we (Tamp and I) are very different people. For one, I don't pretend to be other people.

[ignusfaatus]

I am not so sure. There is suggestion out there that saint marck has hundreds of sock puppets.
He would not be the first website administer to make fake users to build the net worth of his website in hopes of selling it for profit.

but maybe he is an exception. things just don't add up in my mind

[lordfeldo]

You're being paranoid. I've been a member of that site for years (including during its previous ownership,) and if marck wanted to pump up the userbase, he'd do it easily, and if he was willing to sell the place, it would be well sold for cheap by now.

It's just a small corner of the internet.

[ignusfaatus]

they are hosted on GoDaddy's servers and GoDaddy IS in good standing with the BBB. That means you can prolly shut em down if you care to

[i_dread]

People are fucking stran'ge.