Was this account hijacked?

April 4, 2003 4:39 PM

I'm having trouble reconciling this MetaTalk post with this user page and oh, this first comment and this later comment.
I'm thinking not the same person...

Hijacked account? somebody borrow mom's password?
posted by y2karl to MetaFilter-related at 4:39 PM (26 comments total)

Maybe the drugs just wore off.
posted by MrBaliHai at 4:42 PM on April 4, 2003

After seeing this comment and the follow up, I looked at the bingbangbong user page and checked out the user page and then the MetaTalk post, which I do remember. I can't believe it's the same person--the diction, for one, the vocabulary for another, the manners, for yet another.

Upon review: You mean the smart drugs, MrBaliHai?
posted by y2karl at 4:47 PM on April 4, 2003

checked out the URL--my smart drugs wore off long ago...
posted by y2karl at 4:48 PM on April 4, 2003

y2karl, knowing bingbangbong's stuff over at e2, I doubt the account's been hijacked. However, since he doesn't have anything on his user page or his profile here at MeFi that clues one in to his identity over at e2, rather than outing that persona here, I'll contact him and ask him to comment here if he wishes.
posted by WolfDaddy at 4:57 PM on April 4, 2003

the preceding tortured paragraph was brought to you by the one-persona-per-person-society-since-having-more-often-introduces-dicey-etitquette-problems-like-this-society of Peoria, Illinois, serving the local Internet community and its denizens since 1898!
posted by WolfDaddy at 5:00 PM on April 4, 2003

You mean the smart drugs, MrBaliHai?

Oh, I dunno. I find a lot of the users here frustratingly one-dimensional. Should everybody have to use the same 'voice' every time they post? Life is shades of gray and I find that intriguing, not threatening. So let bingbangbong play with your head a little, it won't hurt...much.
posted by MrBaliHai at 5:04 PM on April 4, 2003

the preceding tortured paragraph was brought to you by the one-persona-per-person-society

I find a lot of the users here frustratingly one-dimensional. Should everybody have to use the same 'voice' every time they post?

You're right. Maybe one day next week I will eschew stupid jokes (in small font) and comic-book links in favor of prolific flowery prose peppered with references to cognac, expensive cigars and exotic foods. Then the next week I'll *belches, scratches crotch* take up off-color humor and post rude photoshopped images. And you'll have to guess who I am!
Blame iconomy, it's her idea. I think it's actually a fun one.
posted by Shane at 5:14 PM on April 4, 2003

Oh shut up, MadamShanesarCardinizer, youwe're just everynoone else and youwe know it.
posted by WolfDaddy at 5:18 PM on April 4, 2003

youwe're just everynoone else

Heh! Crazy, man!
posted by Shane at 5:37 PM on April 4, 2003

Why is this anyone's business?
posted by hama7 at 6:07 PM on April 4, 2003

People?

Step away from the computer.

This is the kind of dubious textual exegesis I expect from grad students who are really desperate for a thesis — not MeFi.

Of course, we could always ask tamim.
posted by IshmaelGraves at 7:04 PM on April 4, 2003

damn hippies.
posted by bargle at 7:15 PM on April 4, 2003

ham dippies.
posted by jonmc at 7:22 PM on April 4, 2003

*puts on best Homer Simpson voice*: Ummmm, ham dippies...
posted by ashbury at 7:45 PM on April 4, 2003

pear pimples for hairy fishnuts
posted by dejah420 at 8:00 PM on April 4, 2003

I dunno why...but ham dippies made me think of that strip...my mind is an unusual place to live.
posted by dejah420 at 8:01 PM on April 4, 2003

I love this place.
posted by yhbc at 8:19 PM on April 4, 2003

Mathowie 1800:25763 You are your words.

Now say ten 'Hail pancakes' and your thread will be deleted.
posted by eddydamascene at 8:37 PM on April 4, 2003

Boy, leave for a few hours and look at what you find. I'll take your word for it, WolfDaddy. I am impressed at his range. I read this comment and clicked on his user page, then his URL, then his MetaTalk comment. It didn't seem like the same person. My first thought was maybe someone sold their user number. Sorry, I mentioned it.

This is the kind of dubious textual exegesis I expect from grad students who are really desperate for a thesis — not MeFi.

It just wasn't that big of a deal to me. Talk about reading too much into what someone wrote, talk about someone who needs to step away from the computer...
posted by y2karl at 9:08 PM on April 4, 2003

Mathowie 1800:25763 You are your words.

This is from the Gospel of Matt?
posted by jokeefe at 11:19 AM on April 5, 2003

big of a deal

I'll never get used to that of. :)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 11:51 PM on April 5, 2003

Hey! You're ending a sentence with a preposition! That's something up with which I will not put!
posted by Vidiot at 4:32 AM on April 6, 2003

Incensed by that practice you are?
posted by walrus at 5:28 AM on April 6, 2003

walrus = yoda?
posted by Vidiot at 4:27 PM on April 6, 2003

Only before my coffee.
posted by walrus at 2:26 AM on April 8, 2003

I'll never get used to that of. :)

Going to hospital as weird to me sounds.
posted by y2karl at 12:32 AM on April 9, 2003