Every now and then someone creates a new account so they can be "brand new" and still spout the same garbage no one wanted to hear under their previous username. Other times it's clear that someone is doing it to appear to have a more popular opinion on a topic (even if they have to create the equivalent of Online Dissociative Disorder to do it).
There are wackos everywhere!
Really? How do you figure it out? I haven't noticed but curious-- is the language usage the giveaway?
Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
Really? How do you figure it out? I haven't noticed but curious-- is the language usage the giveaway?
Many people have a very distinct writing style. That's one of the giveaways. Another is getting caught making mistakes when mixing information from their multiple IDs, such as years of experience or specialty or something like that. Even without access to such clues as technical information like ISP and all that stuff, there are clues to look for.
Just imagine what two years of him! But then what do we know we are lazy, North American nurses not willing to work 60 hours a week to support his dreeeeaaaam
My first foray into the internet world was on a "mommy" site. Oh my gosh some of those women were meaner than cat manure.
My daughter-in-law frequents a blog written by an "organic mommy" who scorns vaccinations and Western medicine preferring to choose from non-regulated OTC products. I have to bite my tongue, so to speak, NOT to respond to things she puts on FB unless it is medically unsafe . . .which it is most of the time.
I tell ya . . . . ."mommies" can rip you up.
"meaner than cat manure"....OMG, that's good!
Yeah, the thing with the 'parenting' site (it really was mostly Mommies,let's face it, but they wanted to be open to all, etc etc) is it brought out some weird bedfellows.
But people like that headcase I mentioned, who was there for attention only really churned up the waters. People who are honestly good and caring people were torturing themselves over how to help this poor thing; others who were skeptical from just about the 'get-go' were called monsters for being so uncaring, or without compassion. You get the idea. It pitted people against each other who shouldn't have been, and wasted people's precious time trying to "help" someone who was utterly "unhelp-able", at least from our perspective.
In the end, all I know is that someone from the same city did figure out where this person was (who? not sure?) and between police/social workers and moderators from the website......it stopped.
What happened to him or her? Don't know, but wouldn't be a bit surprised (actually, I'd EXPECT) to find that person had continued the same weird life, on other boards.
You should be glad you weren't here in 2008/9 then We had some fantastic men posting in the international area about how wonderful their wives were, what great nurse they were, and how they deserved jobs as soon as they go their visas
Anyone remember Red Ranger? Now, that was a psych case walking. Western women = bad women.
Many people have a very distinct writing style. That's one of the giveaways. Another is getting caught making mistakes when mixing information from their multiple IDs, such as years of experience or specialty or something like that. Even without access to such clues as technical information like ISP and all that stuff, there are clues to look for.
Okay. Now it's a challenge. I will pay more attention
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I've been a member of two boards on which someone faked their suicide. Another got progressively crazier and was obsessed with serial killers and writing them, then married one, didn't like what people thought of that and flamed out. Yep, one of those!
Internet forum society is such an interesting thing to me. I always thought if I'd gone with psych instead of nursing that I'd do some sort of thesis on it. It has its own rules, language, crimes, and neuroses.
I can't figure out how you all KNOW it's someone posting under various IDs. I'd never figure that one out.
I suspect it happens here. On other smaller, non nursing boards, we knew it. We all knew each other pretty well and knew the styles of writing. Usually the sock puppet backed up whatever the OP (The Hand?) had to say.
I suspect it happens here. On other smaller, non nursing boards, we knew it. We all knew each other pretty well and knew the styles of writing. Usually the sock puppet backed up whatever the OP (The Hand?) had to say.
Especially obvious when they all post to the same thread each and every time.
AllNurses should have a policy that you cannot start a Topic discussion until you have posted X number of times. I am annoyed by the ones who have only one post and it is a complaint about a person or an entity.
Speaking of which:
I hate my Supervisor. They are always telling me to do things like answer call lights and give PRNs. If they have time to tell me to do my job, then they have time to do my job....Right?
My Hospital does not pay me what I am worth. I should not have to work for less than six figures. I got my degree, they need to pay me!
How come that nurse makes $10 more on the hour than I do? Just because they have been a nurse since before I was born does not mean that they should be paid more, right?
That same op will be on here again when they have some experience and will post:
I really deserve a raise. I completed my orientation and now have a LOT of experience. Don't you think we should get paid more the longer we've been a nurse?
Then there is the Messiah/prophet post:
I passed the NCLEX and I can now guide all of you to the promised land. Forget reading the advice of others. I have looked into the Abyss and made it my B:no:. Follow me, my children. For I am the power and the glory sent to you by the Almighty holy-ghost of Nightingale.
I'm not sure the emotion it causes exactly, but when college educated licensed nurses speak with less sophistication than my average teen boy and post work scenarios my early.20.something.just moved.out.on.her.own would know how to avoid, I could not post the words circling in my head.
I also don't get providing advice and support in order to help them to stay in nursing.
Oh my gosh some of those women were meaner than cat manure. 
. Follow me, my children. For I am the power and the glory sent to you by the Almighty holy-ghost of Nightingale.
edmia, BSN, RN
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Really? How do you figure it out? I haven't noticed but curious-- is the language usage the giveaway?