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To: Ikeon

“There’s been a lot of posts linked to posters with no bios”

I hate to say but if you post a bio of any substance you run the risk of the trolls using your information to stalk you online or else otherwise use the information against you.

I used to have a bio on here but replaced it with an informative FR post after a troll tracked me down and started sending unwelcome “gifts” to my home.

In totally unrelated news it turns out that those anonymous Amazon gift cards aren’t all that anonymous after all.


9 posted on 05/22/2024 9:01:35 AM PDT by MeganC (Ruzzians aren't people. )
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To: MeganC

Interesting stuff on your profile page ...

Of course, nothing like that would EVER happen on FR.

Oh, no.

Unpossible.


32 posted on 05/22/2024 9:12:44 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MeganC

I agree... Long ago, when I first started here, some people would use the info on your about page against you... Got stalked a few times and deleted my info....


77 posted on 05/22/2024 9:50:07 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: MeganC

“I hate to say but if you post a bio of any substance you run the risk of the trolls using your information to stalk you online or else otherwise use the information against you.”

About 2005 during the years of the W. Bush wars here, I had a full biography with my birth year, place of birth, etc...and people started using the info to mock my posts. I took it all down.


244 posted on 05/22/2024 2:48:44 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: MeganC
after a troll tracked me down and started sending unwelcome “gifts” to my home....those anonymous Amazon gift cards aren’t all that anonymous after all

Are you saying a troll tracked you dawn after viewing your Homepage, and then sent you anonymous Amazon gift cards. And now you know who sent them?

250 posted on 05/22/2024 3:25:02 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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