yo Bob.. check yer testi-monials
Oh great, THAT will REALLY draw in the hunni-bunnis.
"Wanting"?
What, wanting to send me gift cards and money orders?
The only good thing for FishingMan is that it's mid-week & not a weekend.
Might get lucky and make bail by Friday - or some day ending in "y" anyways.
Luckily, the few sweeties worth a dayum know about my dual citizenship & won't disappear just because FishingMan got tossed in the gulag for a few days.
There are actually three of me in there but I gave up on the other two.
One of them didn't even get onto the board, got scooped up so fast it never had a chance to write a profile or run a search even.
Banning accounts is a game as old as forums.
I've been able to stay ahead of any such actions in the past on other forums with the use of VPNs, alternate emails, and shifts in syntax & grammar to conceal my true identity - but it just isn't worth the bother here since 99% of the action is only scammer accounts anyway.
Back in the early 2000s, before they shut the whole thing down at the end of the decade, I used to work as a volunteer in Yahoo Chat Help:1 & Yahoo Chat Help:2.
Stephanie Bergman, who was Yahoo's administrator over all of the chat rooms, got us volunteers involved in a game amongst ourselves whereby we would create new identities that had to at least hint at who we really were.
By my count I had some 330+ separate accounts on Yahoo Chat, most of them a twist on either IdioT_SavanT_i4 or Anonymouse_I_Dentity.
xxxxi4_1, xxxxi4_2, xxxxi4_3, pumpkineateri4, vampirei4, frankeni4, santai4, etc. etc. etc.
There was an endless supply of Yahoo emails available & everyone always got "dressed-up" (changed IDs) for holidays.
What it did was keep us recognized by other help volunteers trying to serve users with problems, while escaping "booters" who might have objected to our work developing "booter-proof" chat clients with 3rd party developers & tried to knock us off chat entirely.
That was some of my best times on the interweebz, often going for 30-40 consecutive hours straight laughing, chatting with dear friends all over the globe, and fixing problems with user's chat client operation (even telling people how to fix unrelated stuff, like a dead burner on a smooth-top stove or how to change the brakes on their 1985 Mustang).
I learned a lot about a lot of things from some super-intelligent peeps there.
Edited by
OldCoot
on Thu 02/05/26 12:27 AM
yeesh.. I'm not a mind reader dude 
