I skimmed the comments there, immediately noticing the familiar names.
AT ONCE I knew these were parody comments, with the exception of one or two.
After a while, love 'em or hate 'em you get to know people's writing style
and unless someone was completely ignorant of FR there's no way those
comments could be seen as legitimate.
While I disagree with the poster pinging Jim and his subsequent comments
I don't see this "offsite spoofing" as anything sinister. It's been
done to me often (though not in this case) and I'm always amused by
it. Maybe a bit flattered and gratified that I riled someone up
enough to bother. But I never worried that anyone would think it was
really me in my proper person. Wrong style, wrong phrasing, wrong points.
While I agree that the poster's ping to Jim was malicious I
don't think the parody posts are that big a deal. Certainly Jim
would not be fooled by them. Even someone with no particular fondness
for you would know the comments attributed to you were not made by you. ;-)
Well, thank you.
Of course it was obvious that the comments over there were not the work of the people implied, but you obviously understood my objection to how it was handled, and that was the whole point. THAT’S what I was objecting to.
I’m actually surprised that nobody has tried that before on me.