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matt
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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A mod breaking a rule - not a very good example to set... 
Personally I think an element of anonymity is quite good on the internet, especially when you consider how desirable some of the kit, surrounding security, and eBay ID's that can be derived - add to that a distinctive name and location, photographs of home, a period in hospital, on holiday, etc. It wouldn't take long for someone of the light-fingered variety to identify a healthy target... |
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wizer
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Chris Knight wrote: | | Your loss Tom! |
That's very true actually  
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Dibs-h
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| matt wrote: | A mod breaking a rule - not a very good example to set...
Personally I think an element of anonymity is quite good on the internet, especially when you consider how desirable some of the kit, surrounding security, and eBay ID's that can be derived - add to that a distinctive name and location, photographs of home, a period in hospital, on holiday, etc. It wouldn't take long for someone of the light-fingered variety to identify a healthy target... |
So so true! Especially considering just how well this forum is indexed by Google. |
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big soft moose
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Dibs-h wrote: | | matt wrote: | A mod breaking a rule - not a very good example to set...
Personally I think an element of anonymity is quite good on the internet, especially when you consider how desirable some of the kit, surrounding security, and eBay ID's that can be derived - add to that a distinctive name and location, photographs of home, a period in hospital, on holiday, etc. It wouldn't take long for someone of the light-fingered variety to identify a healthy target... |
So so true! Especially considering just how well this forum is indexed by Google. |
not to mention the possibility for things to go really pearshaped from forum contact - a couple of years back an argument on a forum (not this one) led to me getting a storm of abusive emails, then the A'hole concerned worked out my work address and started sending me abusive hate mail , and eventually vieled death threats. ( For example I am apparently a " fake, a charlatan, and a fraud who knows nothing about anything and need to watch your back because one dark knight (sic) you'll get whats coming to you" - The fact that i can still quote them verbatim a couple of years later shows that they did have some effect on me
Fortunately however i'm a big lad and some of my mates make me look like mother theresa so i didnt get too concerned - I just figured out who they were in return and sent them a email to their real email address (as opposed to the junk ones they were using for the hate mail) saying " I know who you are , and i can find out where you live - stop this **** now or face the consequences " and that unsuprisingly that was that
and for myself even after that i'm not too worried about the protection of anominimity , in the unlikely event of someone here getting all psycho weirdo on me , i'll just handle them - but for other people who are may be more easily intimidated i can appreciate why they might want to "hide" behind an anonymous user name and avatar
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nanscombe
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Dark knight! 
You were threatened by Batman? 
Maybe I should change my avatar in case someone recognises me?
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mr grimsdale
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TrimTheKing
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| mr grimsdale wrote: | | Now you see it, now you don't. How many posts were deleted in the last hour or so? |
In his thread or generally? I've not been on since Wednesday so what am I missing now? |
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mr grimsdale
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| TrimTheKing wrote: | | mr grimsdale wrote: | | Now you see it, now you don't. How many posts were deleted in the last hour or so? |
In his thread or generally? I've not been on since Wednesday so what am I missing now? |
You haven't missed a lot to be honest! That's what makes it even stranger, that posts are scrubbed. Several thread BTW.
Watch this one!
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TrimTheKing
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| mr grimsdale wrote: | | TrimTheKing wrote: | | mr grimsdale wrote: | | Now you see it, now you don't. How many posts were deleted in the last hour or so? |
In his thread or generally? I've not been on since Wednesday so what am I missing now? |
You haven't missed a lot to be honest! That's what makes it even stranger, that posts are scrubbed. Several thread BTW.
Watch this one! |
Are they your posts that have gone? |
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laird
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Mr.Jekyll probably hasn't told Mr.Hyde that he's deleted them. (IMVHO of course).
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mr grimsdale
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| TrimTheKing wrote: | | mr grimsdale wrote: | | TrimTheKing wrote: | | mr grimsdale wrote: | | Now you see it, now you don't. How many posts were deleted in the last hour or so? |
In his thread or generally? I've not been on since Wednesday so what am I missing now? |
You haven't missed a lot to be honest! That's what makes it even stranger, that posts are scrubbed. Several thread BTW.
Watch this one! |
Are they your posts that have gone? |
Not mine alone. Jason, studders and probably others. How would we know - once they have gone you can't necessarily remember who or what it was about, unless you keep a copy. Gives you a creepy feeling. "Was there a post or am I imagining things?"
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TrimTheKing
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| Bit odd. Were any of them particularly contentious then? |
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Jake
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| As I understand it, some of them are Mr Grim saying that Rayburns are rubbish old fashioned inefficient lumps of iron. Perhaps more or less politely than that. But that seems entirely uncontentious, except that it is on a thread where someone is trying to offload one. |
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mr grimsdale
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But if someone came on trying to sell the worst router* in the world wouldn't you expect a bit of comment along the lines of 'don't touch it with a barge pole'?
Personally I'd be grateful for being warned off from buying a load of crap.
*(I wouldn't know which one that is but I bet there is a leading candidate)
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RogerS
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| mr grimsdale wrote: | But if someone came on trying to sell the worst router* in the world wouldn't you expect a bit of comment along the lines of 'don't touch it with a barge pole'?
Personally I'd be grateful for being warned off from buying a load of crap.
*(I wouldn't know which one that is but I bet there is a leading candidate) |
I hear Netgear can be iffy.
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