Horrifying day as a parent

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lesson here to fake posters is use multiple sources to post- home computer, work computer, cell phone, ipad, etc...

Don't you think it's already a sad state of affairs when someone devotes a major part of their day to drafting fake posts? If someone really goes to the kind of trouble you suggest, they must be seriously demented. Plus regardless of the number of devices you use, they all leave tracks. You may or may not be aware of all those tracks, but I certainly am. You could get away with it for a while, but eventually I'll catch you. Sock puppets need to understand, it is seriously boring to read post after post about people's children. Trying to catch sock puppets is much more interesting.

Yes it is extremely sad. I came back on here this morning to see if there was an update from OP as I didn't suspect the post was fake.

Clearly my first post was a joke and I'm sure other posters thought the same thing. But I got called out by the site admin ouch!

Sorry, I didn't mean for you to think I was calling you out. But, you were offering advice (whether as a joke or not) about how to sock puppet and I wanted to counter that. No need to encourage the practice. My post was directed at sock puppets or potential sock puppets.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lesson here to fake posters is use multiple sources to post- home computer, work computer, cell phone, ipad, etc...

Don't you think it's already a sad state of affairs when someone devotes a major part of their day to drafting fake posts? If someone really goes to the kind of trouble you suggest, they must be seriously demented. Plus regardless of the number of devices you use, they all leave tracks. You may or may not be aware of all those tracks, but I certainly am. You could get away with it for a while, but eventually I'll catch you. Sock puppets need to understand, it is seriously boring to read post after post about people's children. Trying to catch sock puppets is much more interesting.

Yes it is extremely sad. I came back on here this morning to see if there was an update from OP as I didn't suspect the post was fake.

Clearly my first post was a joke and I'm sure other posters thought the same thing. But I got called out by the site admin ouch!

Sorry, I didn't mean for you to think I was calling you out. But, you were offering advice (whether as a joke or not) about how to sock puppet and I wanted to counter that. No need to encourage the practice. My post was directed at sock puppets or potential sock puppets.

is the IP address the same from a smartphone using your home wifi network as it is if using the desktop hooked up from the same wifi network?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:
is the IP address the same from a smartphone using your home wifi network as it is if using the desktop hooked up from the same wifi network?

Yes. In the case of this thread, every post came from the same computer. However, there was a break in posting around 8 pm (going by memory). During the break, it looks like someone was continuing to read the thread from another device at the same place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:funny thread. About the monkey bars, I have seen some 3 year old girls climb the monkey bars (the short ones), and I really don't think you could break a bone or hurt your head because they are over mulch or grass and only 4-5 feet off the ground. Has anyone ever really gotten hurt from falling off the small monkey bars?

Yup. My DS. He fell off the second to lowest step. 3 feet. But he fell backwards and tried to put his arms behind him to break his fall. Broke his arm and dislocated his elbow. A lot of times, it is not just the height, but the way the person fell that causes injuries also.

[Anonymous]

I've invented a name for the OP's mental illness.
Munchausen by DCUM.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/ill/munchausen.html

[Anonymous]

Has the OP posted again since the IPs were called out?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Has the OP posted again since the IPs were called out?

Not from that address. She had been viewing the thread fairly regularly until just before 8 this morning. She may be at work now and possibly posting from there.

[Anonymous]

Well this is just bizarre. Really hoping the OP comes on to explain her (or him) self.

[Anonymous]

I'm the poster who asked about the IP addresses a couple of posts above.

I just checked the list Jeff provided, but only to the hour:minute, not hour:minute:second. 3 of them were posts that were clearly as neither the "neighbor" nor OP.

A couple could not be determined as 2 people had posted at the same minute.

Sad. If this is due to some sort of pain she's going through, I hope she gets whatever help she needs.

[Anonymous]

Wait, you can tell if someone is VIEWING a thread, even if s/he's not posting? Huh. I did not know that.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has the OP posted again since the IPs were called out?

Not from that address. She had been viewing the thread fairly regularly until just before 8 this morning. She may be at work now and possibly posting from there.

Dude, Jeff, your big brother capabilities are getting kind of freaky! I'll have to stop all my trolling and socking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has the OP posted again since the IPs were called out?

Not from that address. She had been viewing the thread fairly regularly until just before 8 this morning. She may be at work now and possibly posting from there.

Dude, Jeff, your big brother capabilities are getting kind of freaky! I'll have to stop all my trolling and socking

No kidding - Jeff, please tell me - do these pants make my ass look big?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has the OP posted again since the IPs were called out?

Not from that address. She had been viewing the thread fairly regularly until just before 8 this morning. She may be at work now and possibly posting from there.

Dude, Jeff, your big brother capabilities are getting kind of freaky! I'll have to stop all my trolling and socking

No kidding - Jeff, please tell me - do these pants make my ass look big?

I believe the correct terminology is: do these cranky pants make me look fat?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:No kidding - Jeff, please tell me - do these pants make my ass look big?

Just as is the case when my wife asks the same question, even without looking I can give a resounding "no". You look wonderful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, you can tell if someone is VIEWING a thread, even if s/he's not posting? Huh. I did not know that.

Yikes! YIKES!

My DCUM OCD is officially CURED!

[blushing to think of how far Jeff can see into my mind]