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Originally Posted by ellebud
But shall we mull over the possibilities of this whole section: Posting realtime truth (as the pnm sees it) the pnm is threatened with identity exposure and flamed. Post a thread right afterward and you are under scrutiny for the truthfulness if everything was perfect. (and rightly so) Post it years later, with a point (or without) and people are bored and/or suspicious.
Has anyone noticed that in the old days at the end of the thread the writer would reveal the school and sometimes even the key to the code of names? And life as we knew it went on.
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The thing that has pissed people off is that people use not naming the schools as an excuse to be "brutally honest" which really means "insulting and degrading." I read one of the old threads (by UCLAgirl if you want to look for it) last night, and she was honest but never, ever rude. Oh, and I remembered another reason people started using the code names - the "shameless plugs" that people used to do for their group. I'd rather see "go Milky Way" than a certain poster's relentless, huge fonted, multi colored shameless plugs. It made some people uncomfy - they thought it might be dirty rushing - and it was just downright obnoxious, especially since for all the pluggers knew, the girl writing the story could have had 3 heads.
I don't think "threaten" is the right word - obviously people like to figure out what school and which group is what, that's human nature. But posters on here are for the most part good at not outing others even if they do get it. Where they have gotten into trouble is when people from their school read the story (without necessarily registering or making themselves known) and there's repercussions for them down the line.
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