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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Mar 24, 2010 - 05:21pm PT
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i've used my real name in three places that i can remember. once to sign a note of sincere condolence, once to gripe about a mispelling in an attribution that got everything else wrong too, rendering it unsearchable, and once in the nick name thread.
strangely, advanced search won't bring up those instances but a simple search on my real name calls up everything i've ever posted under my avatar, so there's a linkage that has been created, but it's one way, wrong direction.
if you're going to play nice, what's it matter if you sign the nick your closest friends know you by?
witnessing the manipulation of a personal image into vehicular intercourse destroyed any sense of trust about posting images.
i would be mortified to see that happen to someone who posed for my camera
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Mar 24, 2010 - 05:22pm PT
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I think Kris and Binks both make solid points. I'm kind of with Binks though in that I'm a professional, I have a web site. I don't want others with adverse interests mining the net for my views, even if they are climbing related. In the spirit of openness however, I'll give you this much: I'm Steve S.
And BTW Dingus, I thought it was Milquetoast.
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mooch
Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
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Mar 24, 2010 - 05:27pm PT
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ksolem??.....isn't that Yiddish??
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Mar 24, 2010 - 05:39pm PT
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I think the taco is more of a weenie roast.
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scuffy b
climber
Where only the cracks are dry
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Mar 24, 2010 - 05:44pm PT
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Caspar Milquetoast, Dingus Milktoast.
Not directly related.
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Tattooed 1
Trad climber
Sebastopol, Ca
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Mar 24, 2010 - 05:55pm PT
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My name is Tim Grogan and I know people that'll break your knee caps for a pack of smokes.But I'm still one of the nice guys.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Mar 24, 2010 - 06:00pm PT
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I absolutely do not want my given name on the rock climbing websites. It pissed me off that I had to use last name on Facebook. (I know... I could have gotten around it. But it refused to accept Grrrl as my last name.)
It pissed me off when someone wrote a really ugly diatribe against me on this very site, using my first and last name. And pissed me off even more when someone made a blog post linking and copy/pasting to that post. It comes up on searches of my name even still - 5 years later.
I didn't WANT my family and business clients latching on to my climbing stuff. They do not really mix well. Too much information, if you know what I mean. And some of these people, once having the link, would take an interest. I didn't want to find myself responsible for a LEB-type situation.
It doesn't really bother me if someone refuses to give an idea as to who they are to much. But when they antagonize, and refuse to give any sort of an indication they actually do exist outside of this forum, then I tend to think that is a person with a problem. They have a disconnect between what they want their life to be, and what it actually is. At least that's my take on it.
I also don't give them much credo.
But! Here's a conundrum. Fattrad. This is a dude who really does exist, and shows up at Facelift and ID's himself. Yet he trolls MERCILESSLY. I mean, maybe he really does hold some of the political beliefs he espouses. In fact, I am sure he does. But the references to Cheney, and this one and that one and pulling this string and that one....It's all BS!
So - ID'ing yourself, in the end, doesn't even make that much a difference.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Mar 24, 2010 - 06:01pm PT
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Some days the campfire looks like this -
Other times - not so friendly -
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Anastasia
Mountain climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
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Mar 24, 2010 - 06:07pm PT
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Anastasia here, and I agree.
I never said anything here I wouldn't have said in person. In fact I have said it all in person when I had the opportunity. Well, a few things I actually would have not if I had the time to cool off. Then again, at least it shows the full me and not some edited air brushed political correct version.
Yet... Sometimes allowing yourself to get roasted by those wearing mask is good for you. You learn how a few people can twist what you mean into something ugly. It taught me a whole lot that will be helpful. Might even have taught me how to save my butt when it counts,
:)AFS
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Mar 24, 2010 - 06:09pm PT
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Oh yeah - I just found out I get to live on the preserve in the cabin again like I did last fall!!!!!
YAY! Beer clinking around the campfire!
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Gene
Social climber
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Mar 24, 2010 - 06:25pm PT
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Hip, Hip, Happie. Good news.
I googled myself {I know i'll go blind} and under Images I got a picture of my daughter with RR. I can live with that.
g
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 24, 2010 - 06:38pm PT
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Everybody is so afraid. Mother's won't let their kids play outside- hence child obesity. Others are afraid of being googled. Screw it, I've nothing to lose.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Mar 24, 2010 - 07:34pm PT
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I must say when I googled my name and found on the first page of google links one to white pages that had my home address and a map to my house, I was a bit uneased. Having an uncommon name in a state with a small population will do that to you. Hence I'm content to post under an alias, same first name.
I did unpublish myself from whitepages. I don't mind people getting my e-mail and contacting me, but I do like a little bit of privacy.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Mar 24, 2010 - 07:40pm PT
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I'm with you Kris. The best way to have lots of warm friends is to be warm and friendly. This thread needed to be said. I've enjoy a good troll as much as the next but some people are really vicious in these forums. I ignore them and their posts.
I do not fear the Big Brother. See my face?
And my name really is "Spider."
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 24, 2010 - 07:45pm PT
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I like a bit of anonymity, but many here know me from personal encounters and from pictures. I like it that way.
And I'm cool talking politics or whatever in person, even strongly disagreeing without throwing blows. You should hear me and Crowley around the Facelift campfires....good times though! I just like discussing stuff.
There's nothing really to discuss, political policy-wise, if you agree on everything. It also promotes better understanding of other views, even if the occasional 'dipshit' or 'idiot' is thrown out.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Mar 24, 2010 - 08:05pm PT
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I work in litigation and don't want the bad guys to find me when they google my name, which everyone does.
I make it up by using my real picture in my avatar.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 24, 2010 - 08:08pm PT
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath...cool meeting you last year and your son.
Hope to see you at this year's Facelift.
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matisse
climber
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Mar 24, 2010 - 08:09pm PT
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I'm on the admissions committee for a medical school. The taco gets a lot of hits, and comes up easily in a google search. I'd rather keep my personal life out of the interview.
When you could still see email addresses anyone with had a clue could figure out who I was: myname@myinstitution.edu. duh. It's interesting though, that since I haven't chosen an handle like fluffybunnie or girlygrrl or climberchik, now everyone thinks I'm a guy.
I don't post under multiple avatars, limit my slander and heavily filter my personality out of what I post anyway, (after getting excoriated over a TR, which I subsequently deleted). In other words I behave the way I would if my full name was here. so what is the big deal?
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Mar 24, 2010 - 08:09pm PT
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We tried to throw you out?
Must have missed that one.
HAR HAR MOFO - got ja!
Seriously tho, this topic has me thinking back to literal campfire sessions with various members and I think that what is missing in this fire ring is a good old ass kicking showdown.
Primitive I know.
More likely to have occurred during our early to mid testosterone years than would be seemly for gents of our portly years.
I digress.
The point of this tale is that in the old days, whenever your campfire of cool got infested by some Poindexter you could either (a) silently put up with it; (b) get up and leave or (c) have enough of their crap and sock the sh#t out of them.
I sense that for many on this forum - Option C is their private wish but probably never will be their destiny.
(Unless of course there just happens to be a wire cage set up down by the creek behind Yellowpines this September where rivalries and disagreements can be resolved like true hominids.)
May the greater ape win!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Mar 24, 2010 - 08:34pm PT
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I've been here as my real name. I've been active in internet forums since I was in middle school, almost always as GDavis. Everything from work related forums when I was a projectionist to mixed martial arts blogs to gaming sites. Never has anything come up. My Facebook account is public, as is (well, was) my myspace account. I have always been held accountable for what I've said, and I've often had people come up to me at Josh or at the gym who recognize me from my posts and we talk back and forth. Almost always they won't reveal who they are, which is fine.
Binks, no one is going to not hire you because you are a dick on Supertopo. Not unless you are posting things like "I don't believe you should have to work hard in life," or the equivilant of some other things people say in political threads.
in that sense, if you are going off on people often enough that what you say will get you blackballed, maybe its a good thing. Heck, I for sure wouldn't want to hire a guy like that. But I'm a bit different.
Dingus, I know you as Dingus the Milktoast. I hear you roar. I know you could be recognized most places on the east side, but fact of the matter is, you won't publish your name for whatever reason.
Kind of strange, but people like to be able to hide when they speak out.
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