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mav469 · Jan 14, 2015 9:36:45 pm

We look nothing alike. He looks like dermot I look like Daniel Craig. Lol.

Hai · Jan 14, 2015 9:41:40 pm

I meant the photo of Carol wearing helmet

punchyjam · Jan 14, 2015 10:25:58 pm

Quote from: T-Bone Tyrone on Jan 14, 2015 3:46:18 pm

bit of the dermot o'leary about you!

Rofl , my mother in law says that .... and everyone thinks she mad !!! Its been good fun looking at everyones pics , Mike you are the spitting image of a guy i went to school with !! I had a proper double take , your real name is not colin is it

punchyjam · Jan 14, 2015 10:28:02 pm

Quote from: mav469 on Jan 14, 2015 9:36:45 pm

We look nothing alike. He looks like dermot I look like Daniel Craig. Lol.

Lol , i agree Ash , i am way more wrinkly than you as well

mav469 · Jan 14, 2015 10:40:01 pm

thanks mate, must be my youth that separates us

ROFL hehe

Mike · Jan 15, 2015 12:12:35 am

Quote from: punchyjam on Jan 14, 2015 10:25:58 pm

Rofl , my mother in law says that .... and everyone thinks she mad !!! Its been good fun looking at everyones pics , Mike you are the spitting image of a guy i went to school with !! I had a proper double take , your real name is not colin is it

When people are being complementary they say I have a resemblance of Jason Statham

, when they're not, they say Karl Pilkington :embarrassed: ... but no, never been called Colin. My real name's actually Peter, I don't know where Mike ever came from... :huh: It's like Trigger, calling Rodney - Dave. :rolleyes:

Quote from: punchyjam on Jan 14, 2015 10:28:02 pm

Lol , i agree Ash , i am way more wrinkly than you as well

Nah, Ash just blurs his face a bit to hide the wrinkles, and I bet he moisturises. :tongue:

punchyjam · Jan 15, 2015 7:01:41 am

Lol im sure "he's worth it " sorry m8

Carol · Jan 15, 2015 7:26:44 am

Why on earth do we use names that arnt ours ? Im the worst for that lmao....It was like I dont want anyone knowing who I am....I mean would it mean anything if they did ? I am not in a witness protection programme so..WTF ?

Anyone remember Colin from The Brittass Empire ?

Himself had a nickname in the real world.....Bomber....now the guys at work call him Horse , but somehow a nickname is different . If i ever had a nickname no one ever used it to my face :smiley:

Mike · Jan 15, 2015 8:56:28 am

Usually on forums a pseudonym is usually needed as all common names are taken.

But using pseudonyms online is pretty complicated. It's necessary as "Dave" is probably taken, but also because it's faceless and people see nothing more than your name usually, so people then choose a name which represents something about their personality, i.e HK_Fuey representing his martial arts, Mav469 being because Ash wanted to be a fighter pilot, and we won't talk about Rob... :huh:

There's a paper by MIT about it:

Quote from: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit7/papers/MMartin.pdf

In civil society, anthroponymy sets the social being within a group. More precisely, their
patronymic or matronymic is used to position them along a genealogical line, whereas their first
name is a means to identify them within the family group. So what can be said about the social
being?s identity in the context of digital society? In order to join discussion forums or chatrooms,
the internet user has to choose a pseudonym, the origins of which stem from various
sources – the person?s private life, cultural objects, individual traits etc. However, using a
pseudonym on the Web is not done for the sole purpose of naming an individual. Thus, in the
course of a follow-up communication to the on-line publication of newspaper articles or while
discussing a given theme in a forum, the nomen falsum (or„false name?) chosen by the user can
be laden with meaning - antagonism, emotion etc. This multidimensional status of a pseudonym
on the Internet will be examined using various examples taken from newspapers?on-line editions
as well as discussion forums. Other questions arise from this observation. If a pseudonym is used
for naming or protesting, does this not mean that its purpose is to express what cannot be said
within civil society? Is this not a confusion between private and public space? And if so, what
are the reasons? Finally, does digital society not stand as an opposing force to civil society?

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit7/papers/MMartin.pdf

Carol · Jan 15, 2015 9:26:30 am

Ohh I never thought of all that :huh: .....you got another posty spammer offering loans but I expect your on that....

Coming back to mods and admin and thier priveledges ,there was one forum that shall be nameless that a very nice chap sold on, the new owner told us mods that we must go into private message folders of members to see what they were discussing :angry: Whilst I never had anything to hide in my messages I felt this was bang out of order , had i wanted to work for MI5 I would have chosen that path long ago . Coupled with wanting to charge members to see the forum ,which was daft beyond belief , or I felt it was.... I walked. :smiley:

Mike · Jan 15, 2015 9:29:09 am

Quote from: Carol on Jan 15, 2015 9:26:30 am

the new owner told us mods that we must go into private message folders of members to see what they were discussing :angry:

I'm not even aware of a forum platform which allows / facilitates that. This one certainly doesn't, rightfully so...

Carol · Jan 15, 2015 9:36:53 am

Well I dont know I never had anything to do with the software , I am trying to remember , would an administrators password open anything? I could get into accounts , we had a lot of problems with the same person or say one or two people coming in under different names and starting arguments, in one forum I could get into an account and ban them for say 30 days or whatever. Also obviously I could delete accounts.

I think this is also a reason why I adopted different names when moving to another forum as at one point I appeared to have got a stalker :undecided: ...................

Garry and I got invites to stay , and the evenings entertainment wasnt going to be monopoly , it does make me laugh as Im short round old and realy not attractive in any way :smiley: ....had to change phone numbers and all sorts....thats why now I can be a bit standoffish .

T-Bone Tyrone · Jan 15, 2015 10:05:51 am

Well Carol... if this is you being stand offish, I'm not too sure if seeing you in full flow (so to say) :rolleyes:

Mike · Jan 15, 2015 10:07:00 am

There needs to be functionality there waiting for an administrators password to open something, and certainly in this forum platform, there's just no ability whatsoever for me to view personal messages of others.

I can obviously view account settings, I can view profiles the same as the owner of the profile can, so I can change a username, email address, etc, but no access to PMs but my own. PMs can be reported though, at which point the message is forwarded to me/mods, but that's the only way a PM can be seen by myself or moderators.

You can view a demo SMF installation if you want to verify that. :) SMF version 2.0.6 Demo - opensourceCMS

Yeah, I can ban members indefinitely or for a period of time, and while that seems to happen a lot on car forums, it'd seem odd for a place like this (to ban for a duration). If someone was so incompatible with the forum that a ban was necessary, then I see no reason why they'd ever want to return to do anything but cause more trouble. Anyway, other than spammers, nobody's ever been banned so far. (although I'm keeping my eye on you...) :wink:

carlcall · Jan 15, 2015 10:12:26 am

Quote from: i-CONICA on Today at 9:29:09 am

I'm not even aware of a forum platform which allows / facilitates that. This one certainly doesn't, rightfully so...

Nah as you've said Mike there is no way to access PM's.....well there is a way but you would know it had been done. There are ways around everything but you can't just access things that easily.

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