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My friend, you would not tell with ſuch high zeſt
To children ardent for ſome deſperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum eſt
Pro patria mori.

Well, as you can see from THIS USER, it appears I have an impersonator. I've seen a few of these fraud-lings around and it seems to be a growing problem.

Is there any way to stop this from happening? Perhaps limiting users to the standard Roman alphabet and making the system aware of the fact that "el" and "eye" characters can look similar for name choice purposes?

  • 12.28.2005 2:29 PM PDT
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Maybe a change in font. There's no real way to stop the "_V2" brigade, however. Except for ignoring them - but I think that's beyond the majority of this community.

  • 12.28.2005 2:35 PM PDT

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AHHH

Hes back

That guy got a bunch of us a month or 2 ago.

Yoozel even permabanned me on accident thinking i was an alt account.

  • 12.28.2005 2:43 PM PDT
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The Frontline - A group dedicated to help improve the forums as a whole.

Is he now banned?

  • 12.28.2005 2:50 PM PDT
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I don't think there is much that anyone can do about somebody trying to impersonate someone else. If you fix the font they can still spell it just a little different. I don't even think there is anything that can be done through impersonations. Even if someone spams under the impersonated account we always find out. Most of the people who have been here long enough to know who they are impersonating know how to tell the difference between the real and fake account. Even if you didn't have a custom avatar the join date would always make it an imperfect impersonation.

That doesn't mean that I'm against changing the font. I think a font where each letter looks at least a little different would be easier to read.

  • 12.28.2005 2:50 PM PDT
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FUKK YOU BIATCHES

THIS ACCOUNT I'M ON RIGHT NOW IS AN IMPERSONATED ACCOUNT MOTHAFUKKERS

  • 12.28.2005 2:52 PM PDT

Doubal Post

[Edited on 12/28/2005]

  • 12.28.2005 3:03 PM PDT
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The mods V2 are really funny.


Anyway HAHAHA noone can impersonate me!

  • 12.28.2005 3:05 PM PDT

Why not?

  • 12.28.2005 3:07 PM PDT

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Reminds me of the time Pimp at Sea and Banshee Barron were impersonated. I wonder if it's the same guy. He had one account called "Pimp at Sae" and another called "Bamshee Barron."

  • 12.28.2005 3:10 PM PDT
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Everything will be gone long before me. When the first living thing was born, I was here, waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job is finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

If you have any lowercace l's or any upercase i's then you can get impersonated real easy. Or if you have any capital o's I guess.

[Edited on 12/28/2005]

  • 12.28.2005 3:12 PM PDT

I was impersinated once

  • 12.28.2005 3:15 PM PDT
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Because I have no i's.

Unlike my last account...

  • 12.28.2005 3:34 PM PDT

it wi was impersinated once , the person changed the #0 to a O

  • 12.28.2005 3:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: Security Officer
The mods V2 are really funny.


Anyway HAHAHA noone can impersonate me!


Why not? It wouldn't be difficult. Just change the O to 0.

I have never been cloned, as far as I can tell at least. I'm happy about that fact.

I think if I were gonn clone you, frag, I would just lose the "r."

  • 12.28.2005 3:59 PM PDT

Actualy kilroy u do have a clone . i have seen him before . he is Kilroy with 3 nums , and there is a Kilroy with a i instead of L

  • 12.28.2005 4:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: hunter0293
Actualy kilroy u do have a clone . i have seen him before . he is Kilroy with 3 nums , and there is a Kilroy with a i instead of L


Supposedly, the Kilroy117 guy isn't cloning me. I haven't seen the other guy. I'll look into that. Thanks.

EDIT: Oh. haha. I remember that. A buddy of mine was messing with people's heads in this one group. lol. He cloned like 50 people in there. It was funny.

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  • 12.28.2005 4:15 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

I haven't seen anyone impersonate me. Even if they did, it's not like it would do anything if they spammed. People who see me post know I don't spam, nor would I start. Besides, if they looked at the join date, they would know it wasn't me.

  • 12.28.2005 4:37 PM PDT

So the KiIroy with a i that joined my group wasn't a actual clone of u just ur buddy?

  • 12.28.2005 4:39 PM PDT
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i have one his name is


eater of brunch

but i dunno if he is considered an impersonater

  • 12.28.2005 5:24 PM PDT
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I feel unwanted, no one's impersonated me. Not that anyone would do so by accident anyway, elmicker is a totally unique name, i came up with it, and every google result is me. (yes, even those ones).

  • 12.28.2005 5:43 PM PDT
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"Whatever exists, whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. These anonymous creatures may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth."

I do think that "I" (the capital letter) and "l" (the lowercase letter) should have a slight difference so that people cannot do such things.

I'm not worried about being impersonated. There is no way to mimic the name exactly, and it's hard to mimic how I post.

  • 12.28.2005 6:56 PM PDT
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Cloning is lame, why waste your time knowing that you will get deleted?

  • 12.28.2005 7:02 PM PDT

Yea people had a reason to impersinate me ...

  • 12.28.2005 7:50 PM PDT

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