Just some thoughts that I decided to mention here and which shouldn't be inferred to be about anyone particularly in this thread (but if the shoe fits...haha!):
It's just so fascinating how people who clearly have a history come here with a username they don't use elsewhere, and pretend to be open and honest and disinterested parties, who state or imply that they only wish to improve this forum or a particular discussion. lol
I use a pseudonym, but I use the same one everywhere. If I want to get in an argument with someone across forums, they at least can see clearly that I'm the same crackpot/friend/enemy/nobody/whatever that they've previously encountered, and choose to respond or ignore me accordingly. Likewise, bystanders/readers in such threads also have the advantage of knowing there is a history there which may be relevant.
If people really think their views/beliefs/positions are valid, why are some of them continually hiding this history, and pretending to be someone or something they are not? And why do one or two particular people feel the need to keep coming back under new usernames? These are usually the ones that accuse the person they are stalking of being dishonest and/or hypocritical lmao!
If your point is
valid, actual individual readers might agree with you. It's pretty sad when you think that making a dozen sock puppets to "agree" with you or act as a posse to harass someone you encountered in the past (in an AOL chatroom, or who worked for a company you love to hate or whatever the reason, or perhaps because they pointed out a flaw in some product you own/love/manufacture/reviewed/shilled/whatever) strengthens your position. You obviously know that it doesn't, and you obviously know that you place no value on the truth when you engage in such dishonesty. You can make 100 sock puppet accounts across all audio forums to "agree" with you and quote your other puppets to "support" your argument, but you would still be wrong. More sock puppets won't make you right, although if you're artful enough in your use of sock puppets, you might succeed in smearing your target if enough bystanders/readers think that there is actually some consensus against your target, rather than just one or two obsessed cyber-stalkers with a bizarre grudge.
Perhaps this belongs in its own thread, and would make an interesting discussion. I'll leave that up to
@amirm and
@Thomas savage