I AM CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTISM SPEAKS

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It was reported here that Tambourine man's personal character was attacked there by calling him an idiot, and publically calling him out on a personal judgement of his use of drugs; yet it was ignored by the moderators, until people started civily defending his character later in the thread; then those people were warned not to proceed in an argumentive manner.

They then proceeded in a civil manner to discuss and argue the topic of Tambourine man, and related issues to the topic, and were provided consequences for a civil discussion in defense of the character in question, the topic of the thread, allowed by the moderator to continue.

Seems to me like the most reasonable action would have been to close the thread, if further discussion on the topic was not allowed.

Above and beyond that, the previous thread that was opened to talk about Tambourine man was closed, as Duckfetishgirl reports, and another one opened with the same type of attacks that led to heated discussions in the previous one.

From what I understand it was acceptable for him to be attacked, but not acceptable for his personal character or his presentation of Autism Speaks interview to be defended.

Could you see a bias in that direction, that might have been colored by the overall hatred of Autism Speaks, rather than anything Tambourine actually did, before things got out of hand in the first Autism Speaks thread? That part I can view as a non-member, and in my opinion it may be the hatred of Autism Speaks, that caused the problems for Tambourine there and here, more than anything he set out to do by presenting the results of the interview.

It's almost like people were looking at him and treating him like he was a representative of the organization, instead of a neutral observer providing answers to the questions posed by the members at AFF.

The reason I am discussing this at length, is because it is what I see that can be learned from the experience that I alluded to from before; improving our interactions to argue differences of opinions without attacks on personal character.

I challenged him when he first came in and started with the AutSpks stuff. After I was ordered to stand down I did. I left him to sink or swim on his own. He sank. The challenges seemed to come from several different directions. It was the AutSpks thing that got it started. I get the feeling he is going to survive the carnage.

The current staff is mostly UK, so they were occupied with sleep, while it was happening, but handled it as soon as they came in

It was downright scary what i found on VioletYoshi. Those child free people are relentless.

Yes finding the same people at other places can shock you because you find out the horrible truth about them. But could it be possible we are taking what we see out of context because it looks ugly? Like what if the person was just trolling on that forum pretending to be racist or something or what if they were on a troll site posting fake things and doing humor and we all thought it was serious and thought that user actually thinks that and are actually that sort of person? That's why spying can be dangerous.

Not talking about VY specifically here.

You're behind the times, it's possible to post as multiple people at the same time though. Multiple browsers with each set on a specific proxy allows for multiple interactions without logging off. That or if you have siblings, friends, etc who have inactive accounts, you can ask if you can borrow their accounts to post messages too, and the suspicion of the same IP address need not apply (if within the same household of course). This has occurred a few times on the boards I post on.

I don't know exactly how they do it, but I know that they are doing it. And the fact that they would need to be doing it from a different IP address just adds to the weirdness of it. I guess you're right, they are probably not logging on and off of one computer, it's more complicated than that. I think this person has resources beyond the average Joe. I know it's a bit silly to expect people to operate within certain guidelines, and that they should apply to everyone. And yeah, I'm sure it's happened before, I actually thought only NT's would be capable of that kind of deceit! I don't mean that in an NT bashing way, I just mean that I thought most Aspies were like me, not really capable of lying easily at all. Much less on this scale.

Okay, how about this scenario? Quite simple, really. Set up numerous accounts on various computers- friends computers, public computers (Library, anyone? Where I live, they have several computers available for anyone at to use), work computers, whatever. Then using a cell phone with internet access, you could easily post, and log on and off from the different accounts. Assumably, there is a primary account this person uses (and I even know which one it is), and they would use their home computer to post for that account. Sounds pretty simple, except for the fact that you would have to be unhinged to WANT to do it. So you see, it is quite possible for a dishonest person to answer their own post with another username, simply by logging off and on with a different name.

Any decent forum software will tell you not only the IP where the username was registered, but also where each post was made.

The sock puppeteer in question is, I am sure, quite adept at using proxy servers.

I'm sure you are right, 142857.

I think this speculation should come to an end now. Baseless speculation on Tambourine's behaviour is why I started defending him in the first place.

I AM CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTISM SPEAKS