Lying on WP

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Of course! I really wasn't making a commentary about WP at all. The point of a forum is for us to have anonymous names and we're advised to guard our personal information for safety reasons. I wouldn't expect to know anyone's real name or location, or even their specific job, unless the friendship was extremely advanced. Even then it's not necessary in most cases. I don't even care what gender anyone is here, because for all I know people can select the wrong gender as a way to safeguard their privacy. As long as they aren't manipulating or hurting anyone with that selection I don't think it's a problem at all.

My question was just about the bigger topics of lying, like if someone says repeatedly that they work in Buckingham Palace (for example) but they don't, or that they're autistic and it turns out they aren't (or they never even thought they were). Magz answered it well enough, that these things would be looked at on a case by case basis but most of the time they're harmless. When they aren't, that's a different matter altogether.

^ That's one of the reasons I never used f-book.
I don't want my personal info to be easily googlable and conveniently stored for unknown companies that want to pay for them.

What is Mastodon?

Thanks. I thought it was the equivalent of Google or Duck Duck Go rather than a SM company. I don't think I'll look it up because I'm not into social media. I've never used Twitter or Tumbler and don't know who EM is. I try to avoid stuff like that because I get my daily fix of drama as a YouTube moderator. That's enough to do my head in. I don't find there to be any drama here, or very little, so that's why I hang around so much. I know you love your fan fic stuff though, and maybe that's where you write. If so, it's great you've found a safe space that you like.

I don't really watch YT videos either, even on my channel. Quite often I leave the audio off unless they're on Stream Yard. My job is to read the comments particularly in Live Chats, and weed out the endless litany of trolls, bots, and troublemakers. There are many. There's so much infighting between sites it would make your head spin. There are even sock puppets who use different names on different channels like moles, to get information and form false friendships. Then they spread the gossip on their own channels. I've had to go to enemy territory to see what they're saying there, and help flesh out the puppets. It's really quite insane how evil some people can be. The bots are much easier. You just push a button and kill them all at once. We've been doing Members Only and that seems to help cut down on the trolls.

Mastodon sounds great for what it is. Thanks for teaching me something new!

Many years ago I got a pm from a ...Nigerian scammer ...or something who claim to be woman who was eager to start a relationship with me ...just from seeing my profile on WP which has no content whatsoever. I reported it. Others reported getting similar messages.

But Ive never seen someone on WP falsely claiming to be...the real Slim Shady.

I got a email from a Nigerian Prince once.....and he seemed to wanted to send me some money for him to put into my bank account .I thought it was aforable somehow..me..little ole me attracked the attention of a Nigerian Prince.
Aaaahh. felt Soooo special .. thought we might have something good going on ?
So after a week of looking at myself in the mirror and Wundering...
then I just deleted the email... awe but it was a nice dream for a moment


Then some guy named McCaffie and another named Norton ,keep wanting me to have an account with them.. for almost 6 months now.....am Sooo very popular