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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Dec 20, 2014 22:50:11 GMT -5
Ha! I was going to use the Prince Albert and refrigerator running ones but then decided a Bart Simpson's prank call would fit here/Dark better. When we were kids we used to go through the phone book and look for funny names. I remember calling and asking the wife if her husband's dick was really gold. Golddick <<snicker>> D'oh! I've already said too much! Hey Rukh, you are sounding awfully defensive. And you live in the Chicago area you say and have kids? I'm noticing a pattern! My best friend and I used to do the same thing in middle school (before caller id) Two of our best pranks were to call someone named Rogers and say, "this is the reginal survey center calling to say won't you be our neighbor" and "Mr. or Mrs. Vader, this is the reginal survey center calling to say, may the force be with you"
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Post by cronewitch on Dec 21, 2014 1:10:01 GMT -5
Slumber party middle of the night 50 years ago. One girl calls a number from phone book and asks for Mary, later other girls call asking for Mary, always wrong number, last girl calls and says she is Mary and asks if she has any messages.
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Post by Opti on Dec 21, 2014 9:44:25 GMT -5
"I put something on Craigslist about how I'm a battered housewife, sick of my husbands shit, put some pictures up of a woman with black eyes and stuff, mention how he hurts my son, and that I'm selling pretty much everything in the house to get my kids out of there, then list the offenders home address."
I hope you have good liability coverage for LIBEL. The above would be "LIBEL PER SE" and it would not be any harder for them to identify you as the one that did it than it is for you to identify them on the prank calls. "Libel Per Se": "broadcast or written publication of a false statement about another which accuses him/her of a crime, immoral acts, inability to perform his/her profession, having a loathsome disease (like syphilis), or dishonesty in business. Such claims are considered so obviously harmful that malice need not be proved to obtain a judgment for "general damages," and not just specific losses." NOT a real smart thing to do when you are in business. Takes 20 minutes to put a clean Linux install on a computer, install Tor, get an anonymous email address, and then put up a listing on a site like Craigslist. People sell heroin and child porn that way without being traceable. Good luck tying a craigslist post back to somebody that has even half a clue what they're doing. If I did it, I'd get a call from a police officer trying to bully me into saying something stupid, but he and I would both know there's no way to prove shit as long as I keep my mouth shut. Seems like much more effort than I'd expend over crank or scam calls. Why not just hang up or put them on hold when you get these calls?
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Post by Ava on Dec 21, 2014 11:12:09 GMT -5
I am noticing a pattern of Dark being more paranoid and stressed out, and accusing people over here of reaching out and making his life harder. Both Dark and The Haitian have posted a lot of personal information about themselves, including specific geographic location. I don't go that far and even then, sometimes I wonder if I have put too much identifying information in my threads. I'm not worried about the regulars here, they seem a pretty normal bunch. But this is the open internet and anybody can be reading what we post. So far, it has been proven that no one in YM has gone out of their way to cause Dark any harm in both instances he's posted about someone "possibly" from here interfering with him or his business. I would like you, Dark, to think about it and find more information before accusing anyone of wrong-doing.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 13:05:09 GMT -5
I have a hard time believing this whole story. There! I said it!
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Post by Opti on Dec 21, 2014 13:14:55 GMT -5
I didn't accuse anyone. Go read the first post in this thread again. I said on the off chance it ties back here. Here, I'll make it easy and quote it: Please bold the part where I accused somebody. Thanks. You didn't accuse anyone, however you started your post linking your posting here with receiving crank calls. Your OP wasn't 'I'm getting crank calls from Chicago' ending with a simple 'on the off-chance someone knows this kid please PM me'.
The tone is you suspect a link here enough you are willing to post about it and say all the creative things you do to prank callers. People use the Internet not phonebooks generally to search. Why would they limit calling to their local area? Scammers and borderline businesses do not.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 19:12:40 GMT -5
it is edging into criminal harassment I would think. yes - they are under age, but that also means this won't really derail their lives either. contact parents or report and have police give them a warning. Agree to press no charges if they stop. At this time of year, I wouldn't think you had time for this nonsense. Rukh is right. You need to contact their parents. I told you already that I think like a teacher, but it is so important to be proactive when dealing with minors. I'm not saying to report them to the police but let their parents know what is going on. The next person they harass may not be so "generous" or so innocuous as you are.
When my son was twelve, I got a call from a guy that said my son and his friends were visiting a friend. The entire group vandalized his Christmas lights. He didn't want to press charges; he just wanted to let the parents know that these kids were doing criminal mischief while unsupervised by the parents of the kid they were visiting.
I appreciated the call. The other parents appreciated the call. We took care of it.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Dec 21, 2014 19:54:30 GMT -5
Really? This is that big of a deal now and needs to be reported? What harm was done? I don't know anybody (not that I've done a poll) that didn't prank call as a young teen when they had sleep overs with friends or got bored while hanging with friends.
I did delete my other post so not to encourage him further but I just don't see the harm done especially if he talked to Dark and he's stopped. I see the harm done when damaging property like Susana mentioned or if it affected Dark's business in a negative way or caused somebody real pain but what the kid did was no worse than most telemarketers or politicians have done and, to be honest, I'd prefer the pranking kids to them.
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Post by midjd on Dec 22, 2014 10:01:16 GMT -5
This is one of the more confusing threads I've read. So you think there was a teenager (or poster's child) lurking here and decided to prank call you because you hadn't posted in a while? I suppose a poster could have put their kid up to it (why??), but otherwise that seems like a lot of dedication for a kid.
And didn't you say you let your kids read here? I would suspect an online friend of theirs who was told about NMSNM before I'd believe that there are posters' kids trolling the forum waiting for you to stop posting so they can mess with you...
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Post by midjd on Dec 22, 2014 10:46:37 GMT -5
I don't think I have any privileged info on that, except that I can see the registered posters who have opted to remain invisible. As far as I know, no one can track which specific threads a poster/guest has viewed or anything like that.
But as far as lurkers go, you can go down to the bottom of the home screen and it will let you know who has been on in the last 24 hours. This is what it says now:
"Users Online in the Last 24 Hours 15 Staff, 237 Members, 1,556 Guests."
So yeah, there are a LOT of lurkers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2014 10:49:41 GMT -5
"Users Online in the Last 24 Hours 15 Staff, 237 Members, 1,556 Guests." So yeah, there are a LOT of lurkers. LOL I've been reading way too many Elephant and Piggie books lately. All I can think of is the book "We are in a Book" Where E&P realize they are being read.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Dec 22, 2014 10:52:33 GMT -5
I don't think I have any privileged info on that, except that I can see the registered posters who have opted to remain invisible. As far as I know, no one can track which specific threads a poster/guest has viewed or anything like that. But as far as lurkers go, you can go down to the bottom of the home screen and it will let you know who has been on in the last 24 hours. This is what it says now: "Users Online in the Last 24 Hours 15 Staff, 237 Members, 1,556 Guests." So yeah, there are a LOT of lurkers. Probably the majority of guests are bots, not humans. But sometimes a bot is more human than a human.
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Post by Opti on Dec 22, 2014 11:02:38 GMT -5
I don't think I have any privileged info on that, except that I can see the registered posters who have opted to remain invisible. As far as I know, no one can track which specific threads a poster/guest has viewed or anything like that. But as far as lurkers go, you can go down to the bottom of the home screen and it will let you know who has been on in the last 24 hours. This is what it says now: "Users Online in the Last 24 Hours 15 Staff, 237 Members, 1,556 Guests." So yeah, there are a LOT of lurkers. Don't we get counted as a guest if we don't log in?
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Dec 22, 2014 11:14:38 GMT -5
I'd hardly count 1556 as a lot - you know in the general scheme of things out there. I think DD has that amount of followers on some social networks Archie - any way to figure out the bot vs not? are bots better or worse - you know - for our personal security - confidentiality - anonymity? Virgil might be able to. He is good at that stuff.
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Post by midjd on Dec 22, 2014 11:39:53 GMT -5
I don't think I have any privileged info on that, except that I can see the registered posters who have opted to remain invisible. As far as I know, no one can track which specific threads a poster/guest has viewed or anything like that. But as far as lurkers go, you can go down to the bottom of the home screen and it will let you know who has been on in the last 24 hours. This is what it says now: "Users Online in the Last 24 Hours 15 Staff, 237 Members, 1,556 Guests." So yeah, there are a LOT of lurkers. Don't we get counted as a guest if we don't log in? I believe so. I'm guessing that accounts for some of the numbers, but probably not a ton (if we only have 200ish posters online during any given period). I never thought about bots, though.
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Post by hoops902 on Dec 22, 2014 11:46:27 GMT -5
Speaking of shanigans in general - I heard a rumor that dark and hoops were one and the same. Care to comment? Now that you mention not posting - I haven't seen hoops posting either! I'm noticing a pattern!!!Hoops and I aren't the same person. I mean...Dark and I aren't the same person...hard to remember which account I'm on.
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Post by mmhmm on Dec 22, 2014 11:51:37 GMT -5
Yes, you're counted as a guest if you don't log in. It's possible to figure out which of our guests are bots and which aren't; however, it takes some doing - unless Virgil has some trick to doing it quickly. I've never seen the need. I know quite a few of them will, indeed, be bots.
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Post by mmhmm on Dec 22, 2014 11:54:51 GMT -5
I'd hardly count 1556 as a lot - you know in the general scheme of things out there. I think DD has that amount of followers on some social networks Archie - any way to figure out the bot vs not? are bots better or worse - you know - for our personal security - confidentiality - anonymity? Bots, in general, aren't a problem. They're just collecting information for search engines. All they can see is what's posted, so you should always be careful not to share critical information - like addresses, telephone numbers, and things like that. They're actually of help to us as lots of people will use an engine like Google to search for something of interest to them. If it triggers a listing from our board, that person may come here and join us.
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Post by Firebird on Dec 22, 2014 12:15:26 GMT -5
Speaking of shanigans in general - I heard a rumor that dark and hoops were one and the same. Care to comment? Now that you mention not posting - I haven't seen hoops posting either! I'm noticing a pattern!!!Please don't break my brain that way so early in the morning.
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Post by hoops902 on Dec 22, 2014 12:53:27 GMT -5
Hoops and I use a totes different writing style, different slang, etc. Right, the only plausible explanation for us being the same person would be multiple personality disorder. And we're both totes sane.
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Post by souldoubt on Dec 22, 2014 12:56:32 GMT -5
I can't even quite follow what's going on since posts have been deleted but it sounds like you got pranked, probably mentioned the board to the kid and now you're getting trolled. Anything is possible but as someone else mentioned not that long ago you were on here claiming someone signed you up for some service or was trolling you when it was for a legitimate purchase. Most times I see people act like this they make stuff up in their head as they go because they spend too much time on it. Good luck.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 22, 2014 13:03:20 GMT -5
Hoops and I use a totes different writing style, different slang, etc. Right, the only plausible explanation for us being the same person would be multiple personality disorder. And we're both totes sane. Sorry, couldn't resist...
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 22, 2014 13:20:47 GMT -5
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Dec 22, 2014 14:11:34 GMT -5
I had to look up "totes"
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Post by midjd on Dec 22, 2014 14:13:12 GMT -5
Totes magotes!
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Post by hoops902 on Dec 22, 2014 14:19:45 GMT -5
::A shorter more convenient form of the word: totally. This word is most commonly used by teenage girls.::
It totes makes sense. Dark has daughters around that age and I like to hang around the local high schools.
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Post by Opti on Dec 22, 2014 14:28:29 GMT -5
::A shorter more convenient form of the word: totally. This word is most commonly used by teenage girls.:: It totes makes sense. Dark has daughters around that age and I like to hang around the local high schools. So ... does this make both of you more sane or less sane than a Totes umbrella?
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Post by geenamercile on Dec 22, 2014 15:55:54 GMT -5
Anyone like really getting the urge to start prank calling Dark?
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Post by souldoubt on Dec 22, 2014 16:11:46 GMT -5
Anyone like really getting the urge to start prank calling Dark? No because if he's really like one more prank call from going over the edge do you want to be the focus of his wrath? No one wants to be the one to make the news for getting assulted by some guy dressed as Waldo.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Dec 22, 2014 16:15:21 GMT -5
I sent him beer once. not the snake in the can kind of beer, though. Actual beer. I guess that was not a prank.
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