boltonbonce wrote: Sluffy wrote:
It wasn't a snide comment - it was a statement of fact that I made - and which you at long last have finally confirmed namely that Wanderlust DID indeed post on WW as Hoppy510 despite his copious denials and lies that he didn't!
I linked several times to that post and even posted in full here on a number of occasions, so it was there to be seen on here even if you had missed over on ww.
It doesn't matter now, you've confirmed what I've known all along and frequently stated on here, that Wanderlust posted on ww as Hoppy510 and did indeed post that HE VOTED FOR BREXIT.
Perhaps now people will begin to understand much better now what really has been going on, on Nuts, for the last few years...
Can I digress slightly, with regard to posting under other names.
I often had off site email conversations with our long lost friend Breadman, and, during one such discussion, the subject of fake accounts came up. He, like myself, was pretty tired of them.
He then offered this little nugget. 'I don't do fake accounts, although I sometimes post as **********'.
Don't ask me to reveal it, because I won't. Any pm's will be ignored.
Speculate away ladies and gents.
It's the internet and I fully understand that people are free to do whatever they want on it - as such I don't have a problem with it.
The thing is though that some people, lots of people, seem to be too innocent, naive or stupid enough to believe what someone posts is true or factual.
For some reason I don't understand myself, people begin to take the words of one 'anonymous' poster over the 'words' of another 'anonymous' poster. they begin to 'like' and 'trust' these certain posters and disbelieve and 'take sides' against those who 'challenge' their 'internet' mates.
When we set up Nuts there was a view from some of the founders that we should all have multiple fake accounts and post with them to make it appear the site was busy and active and so encourage new people to join and start posting.
I wasn't happy with this as I don't like deliberately being fake or dishonest so I said I didn't like the idea but was outvoted.
I've seen these fake accounts deliberately mislead and wind up genuine posters and it's done untold damage to the site over the years.
Sure it is fun at times and yes a bit of a wind up can be harmless but as always things go too far and people get hurt. We've lost Glos over the xmile account for instance and I KNOW of at least one other fake account on here,
I'm not a killjoy and I'm not anyone's mother either, you're all grown men and should all know by now not to take things too seriously what is said on social media by someone you simply don't know and have never even met!
Anyone with half a brain cell should know enough to spend a few moments for themselves to check a few facts out first before believing totally what some random bloke posts on social media.
The thing is most people don't and are only too willing to believe everything is gospel what their 'favourite' internet poster tells them and that everything their 'least favourite' poster says is a load of crap or some internet vendetta or something.
Christ I've even had Hip Priest shout at me in capital letters on here because he believes what Wanderlust had been saying and totally believed I was some sort of a crank with an agenda against him!!!
The irony being I was the one constantly telling the truth and Hip Priest was believing the lies he was reading from Wanderlust.
I'm not just signalling out Hip Priest either, most of you believed Wanderlust and firmly thought I was the one with all the 'issues' and spoiling this site.
As I've said much of this could easily have been stopped a year or two ago because it was 'known' by others that Wanderlust WAS posting as Hoppy510 and that as Hoppy510 he had posted that he had voted FOR Brexit.
Even if those who knew he posted as Hoppy510 hadn't seen that post on ww (and the numerous links to it and the copies of it I have posted on here since) they surely must have seen his constant denials and lies he posted on here proclaiming he DIDN'T post as Hoppy510 and he DIDN'T vote for Brexit.
Anyway what is done is done.
Wanderlust told lies - I've known that from the very beginning and the truth is now finally out for everyone else to see too. It's been a long and torturous road getting there and caused a great deal of unnecessary arguments and upsets and help turn the site into the basket case it became.
Shame it has taken so long to get to this point but better late than never.
Maybe now we can move on and begin to heal the site?
Let's hope so anyway.
And fwiw Bread has been free to post on here for a longtime now, up to him if he returns or not (rather than post under a fake account), if he does I'll treat him as fair and equally as I do with everyone else.
I even treat the fake accounts fairly too, I just rather they didn't cause the havoc they often do.