About Reveille

[Piratecat]

Just so folks know, we'll be un-stickying and possibly closing this thread fairly soon.

 

[Alzrius]

Well poop.

I hadn't been paying attention since hearing that Rev "woke up," and then find out that it was all a hoax.

I'm not sure exactly how I feel about this, but I know it's not good. I was completely taken in, and now I feel manipulated. I've had people toy with my feelings in the past, and it's always a horrible, hurtful thing to have to go through.

I for one support the mod's policy of banning him for this, as well as his apparent insanity over in the Hive. EN World isn't just some forum - it's a community, and that has to mean something, especially when someone commits such a heinous betrayal of the community.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Just a quick update. I received word from Rev again. As per my suggestion, he started to talk to his family about the things that were going on in his life that may have triggered the hoax. That's basically all he said.

The last order of business is sock puppet accounts. On every other forum I am on, users are limited to one account. There's no active search for them, but if they're found out, they're dealt with. For the most part, having an alt account and using it in a conversation is a ploy for decieving others, hiding your identity (such as it is in an already anonymous environment). The only time an alternate identity makes sense, is in role-playing. Most of the sub-forums on this site are for discussing role-playing. The only place alt accounts should be acceptable is within the ROLE-PLAYING in a game sub-forums.

To sum up, whether the mods make a rule or not, it should become a social standard that using alt accounts outside of a role-playing/story-telling space is deceptive, which violates the Aggie creed, which ought to be an American creed, because it's a good standard.

The problem with that idea is that some of the mods supposedly (can't be verified) use alternate accounts to post normally on the site (without acting as a "sheriff").

There is also an issue dealing with the rare situations where someone is unable to access their normal account and are forced to create a new one as a work around. If you target the base IP then you are potentially preventing that person from getting his account fixed. Also it can prevent multiple family members or roommates who are logging in from the location/computer from using ENWorld.

If you target specific names, then there is an issue considering that the United States has thousands of Bill Smiths.

Sadly, due to the way the internet functions, what you mentioned is really unenforceable and can only be applied as a guideline.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Just a quick update. I received word from Rev again. As per my suggestion, he started to talk to his family about the things that were going on in his life that may have triggered the hoax...

"Triggered the hoax"?

That's rich. Like it was some unavoidable cause-and-effect thing.

"Crap, something triggered my shoplifting again"

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That's rich. Like it was some unavoidable cause-and-effect thing.

I don't have a degree in psychology, but from what I understand, stressors- illness, traumatic events, etc.- CAN help trigger "irrational" behaviors, relapses into past addictive behaviors or disorders, and the like.

 

[Treebore]

I don't have a degree in psychology, but from what I understand, stressors- illness, traumatic events, etc.- CAN help trigger "irrational" behaviors, relapses into past addictive behaviors or disorders, and the like.

Yep.

 

[Lanefan]

The problem with that idea is that some of the mods supposedly (can't be verified) use alternate accounts to post normally on the site (without acting as a "sheriff").

This is fair, but for everyone else, such as:

There is also an issue dealing with the rare situations where someone is unable to access their normal account and are forced to create a new one as a work around. If you target the base IP then you are potentially preventing that person from getting his account fixed. Also it can prevent multiple family members or roommates who are logging in from the location/computer from using ENWorld.

May I suggest that in cases like this, and for character RP alternates, that the poster's "real" name must appear in the alternate account's sig., to make clear who is who. Other duplicates get banned.

Lan-"I ain't nobody's sock"-efan

 

[jdrakeh]

I don't have a degree in psychology, but from what I understand, stressors- illness, traumatic events, etc.- CAN help trigger "irrational" behaviors, relapses into past addictive behaviors or disorders, and the like.

That's possible but I don't think that's the case when you're talking about a massive, ongoing, deception apparently taking place over the course of years without reprieve.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Without disclosing things that Rev hasn't given me permission to state in the public, all I could say is that its my conclusion that the coma hoax was definitely a cry for help aimed at seeing, ironically, if he would be "missed" by the community if something happened to him (my words not his). Unfortunately, for him, as a result of discovering it was a hoax, we now know.

He gave no reasons for his other deceptions (the multiple personas/alts. that he created during the last several years), nor did I ask for any.

 

[S'mon]

Without disclosing things that Rev hasn't given me permission to state in the public, all I could say is that its my conclusion that the coma hoax was definitely a cry for help aimed at seeing, ironically, if he would be "missed" by the community if something happened to him (my words not his).

In no sense can that be considered a cry for help. A cry for help would be "help me". This was just the same kind of manipulation Rev has been obsessed with for years, only more egregious in the hurt he caused.