Someone posted using my handle!

February 11, 2003 8:15 AM

Someone nicked my nick {more inside}
posted by clavdivs to Etiquette/Policy at 8:15 AM (17 comments total)

in Meta thread 3000# at 1:20a.m. feb. 11, someone used my nick...so someone has my pass word and i am very unhappy. I suspect someone and felt I should aire this rather then e-mail matt. the pirated comment was "first post" which is silly enough...still this is a problem.
posted by clavdivs at 8:18 AM on February 11, 2003

clavdius: that was edydamascene playing with CSS as far as I can see, not password theft. I believe he was riffing on your "last word" earlier in the thread.
posted by walrus at 8:20 AM on February 11, 2003

Forgive my spelling, eddydamascene.
posted by walrus at 8:21 AM on February 11, 2003

Yeah, it's fake. Look at the color of the text for the date.
posted by Mid at 8:22 AM on February 11, 2003

You can tell if you view the source of the page, because he has used two line breaks, instead of closing the div container.
posted by walrus at 8:23 AM on February 11, 2003

If the colour doesn't do it, look at the url that the time links to. It's the same as the post above it.
posted by ODiV at 8:23 AM on February 11, 2003

You can tell if you view the source of the page

Doh! Also he's using <small> rather than <span class="smallcopy">.
posted by walrus at 8:25 AM on February 11, 2003

I'm calling my patron...so he can tell me he can't really do anything. ok...good joke...the comment was harmless and the skills used i respect. bricka-braka.
posted by clavdivs at 8:34 AM on February 11, 2003 [1 favorite]

Well allright, then!
posted by Mid at 8:49 AM on February 11, 2003

Satire is the highest form of compliment (next to identity theft. Err, maybe.)
posted by Shane at 8:56 AM on February 11, 2003 [1 favorite]

clavdivs is inimitable anyway.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:58 AM on February 11, 2003 [1 favorite]

Damn, I just noticed I mispelled clavdivs as well. Oh, the unintended irony. Apologies all round.
posted by walrus at 9:10 AM on February 11, 2003

Here's the post in question. Who did you suspect, clavdivs?

I know the chances of being told are slim to none, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
posted by iconomy at 9:19 AM on February 11, 2003

as long as it was a 'legal' joke, i am all the happier. edydamscence is whom i suspected Icon i...but the folks here and mIRC explained it to me. As long as no harm is done to the password system, there is none, I'm just alittle red faced....like my password would not be hard to crack....touche' EDS.
posted by clavdivs at 10:45 AM on February 11, 2003

mIRC would never explain things to me. so i switched to trillian.
posted by quonsar at 10:53 AM on February 11, 2003

So just what is your password, clavdivs?

I know the chances of being told are slim to none, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I kid. Aw don't be embarrassed, clavdivs. A lot of people don't know that silly little posting trick. And it is silly.
posted by iconomy at 11:18 AM on February 11, 2003

sorry
posted by eddydamascene at 2:42 AM on February 17, 2003