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Yeah, I Googled one of my previous usernames and found another person who drew furry porn. Don't use that one anymore.

I have a few usernames that I have reused across different sites. This is the only place where I'm Convallaria though.

I had the same username everywhere up until now. I changed it so it would be harder for my parents to find it, 'cuz I'm a rebel child.

ZeroGravitus, you've made your point.

Badly.

I most particularly did NOT mention any user by name, but only made a vague reference to him and was using him as a general example to illustrate a point. For all you knew, he could be fictitious.

What you have done (picking on me, singling me out as a specific example, and then publishing quotes from external sources and implying they could have been written by me) constitues slander

You are sullying my reputation here on this forum by suggesting that such disgusting words could ever have been typed by my fingers, and as such, you've crossed a very nasty line.

First of all, "libel" is the word you are looking for to describe written content which defames the character of another person. Libel is different than slander, (even when both are written in bold font), but both are defamation.

Second of all, the definition of both "is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, or nation a negative image"

I did not directly state, nor imply (I even made it rather obvious that I do not think you are that Twitter user) any such negative claim as to your character.

All White is not an arsonist, and has never once set fire to an orphanage.

Would you consider the above statement to be defamatory because it places your username in close proximity to the word "arsonist"?

If so, that's a matter of reading comprehension, not common law.

I'm not a lawyer and I clearly don't know the correct term for what you've just done.

I guess you'll just have to excuse me for that.

I am not trying to be clever or intellectual or argue a point. I am merely bringing to your attention that you are causing me distress.

My point was merely that I'm sure you wouldn't like someone else singling you out and doing the same to you. It's not nice. That's why I put the word in bold. To emphasise that what you're doing is completely uncalled-for.

If you'd wanted to use someone as an example to prove your point, what's wrong with using yourself? Why pick on some innocent victim? I didn't pick on anyone or mention anyone by name. Why are you doing it to me?

Would you mind editing out those external quotes, please?

They're nothing to do with me, and I do not know the person who wrote them.

Thank you.

Ok, I'll edit them out.

But I will say that not only are you not an arsonist, but you, All_White, have never once eaten a clown.

Thank you for agreeing to remove them.

But I don't know what you mean about the clown.



Is that another one of those jokes that is totally obvious but that I don't understand?

Are you mad at me, laughing at me, or moving on to talk about something completely different?

I have no idea. You're obviously a clever person. Clever people frighten me. I normally have no idea what they're talking about, and their brains are always ten steps ahead.

Oh dear. Maybe I should edit my post as well. Everyone is going to start being paranoid it's them I've been checking up on!

It will do no good me deleting it if you all go quoting it.

Can we just all agree to delete all references to my dumb, stupid post, before more people walk into this thread and start A. attacking me or B. getting all paranoid?

I often become excited about an idea and express it to others without properly thinking about what the consequences will be. I'm far too impulsive. Added to my impulsiveness, I'm just not clever enough to realise what is about to happen before it actually does!

re. the clown. I suppose that was what showed up in google. Right?

I do get things. Ten minutes later!

Saying "All_White is not an arsonist, nor has ever eaten a clown" is my idea of a joke and a way to try to defuse any tension over the matter of defamation.

A ludicrously true sentence such as "ZeroGravitas has never once invaded Belgium" is a sentence which is not only true, expressly free of defamatory intent, and rather funny, but it is also the kind of sentence which one may feel uncomfortable about even though it should have the opposite effect. It is saying that I have never invaded Belgium: why would I want to deny this?

This reminds me of a classic joke:

That's a very clever joke!

I do know what tee-total means, but thank you for kindly and patiently explaining it to me, just in case I didn't. You are being very kind.

The trouble with me is that I have horrendous general knowledge. If something isn't relevant to me and my own little world or my own special interests, I probably know nothing about it.

You, on the other hand, seem to know lots of things about everything!

You'd be a good person to have on my team to play Trivial Pursuit!

I was forced to play that game once. I scored zero points for my team. I ended up in tears.

They were all trying very hard not to laugh, and kept scanning the cards and reading the questions they were about to ask me, and whispering to each other "she won't know that one. Pick her an easier one" and their kindness only made me feel worse.

Then they found what they said was the easiest question ever. I was bound to know this one, they said.

"What is the world's most commonly used seasoning?"

I thought and thought, really hard, and at length I said hopefully:

"Oregano?"

It wasn't, of course. Once they tell you what it is, it's easy to kick yourself for not clearly seeing the answer.

At least I can make myself laugh by retrospectively poking fun at my own stupidity!

I'd better stop hijacking this thread now. What were we talking about?

Er....usernames!

No I don't use the same one everywhere.

All_White: I'm terrible at Trivial Pursuit and other trivia games too. They always make me feel like I am a contestant on Jeopardy! and I'm looking at a board all the topics of which are about my special interests, except one. And then that one is selected.

"Ok, the subject is Lady Gaga's underwear. For $500, this is the animal she used as underwear when she sang at the Foobar Awards."

And I'm thinking "man, why didn't they pick General Relativity or Erlang Syntax?"

Highly inadvisable as I've learned from experience..