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Can I ask a giant favor, please? COuld you perhaps remove the comments posted under my name in these two articles? Friends of mine from other gaming sites post on the articles, and unfortunately they don't know it's not me posting there, so they think I've turned into a total asshole. These two links have people in them who actually know me:
http://mygaming.co.za/news/xbox/1298...-says-AMD.html
http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/1308....html#comments
Haha!! Shame Graal, I just saw that :(! I don't understand why people do this...
I would also like to say that I am in now ways GamerDuke who posted in that article as well, just in case people think Duke and Duke are one in the same :p...
Somebody on MyBB actually registered my nick and is trolling their comments sections as well. :(
There goes what little credibility I had left amongst most of the south african gaming community. This just tells me it's someone who is purposely trolling either me or a number of people. Obviously has some kind of grudge or vendetta going on.
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/intern...ked-again.html
Is there a possiblity we can reserve nicks for the new comment login system, because this person is probably going to register ours before we can do so ourselves.
Just talk to uncle rpm quite sure he'll sort out the imposter over at myb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
I sent him a PM, but I'm not sure he can do anything about it. There isn't technically a rule that says you're not allowed to use a forum member's nick on the MyBB site.
The biggest gripe is that loads of people online know me personally, and they know me by my nick, Graal. Seeing as they don't always know it's not me posting the comments, this is quite damaging to my online presence. I'm going to try and see if I can't do some freelance journalism for some of the local gaming news sites next year, and if people associate me with being an asshole because of this troll, that's not going to happen. What's even worse is that this could potentially have far-reaching consequences, as I'm planning on perhaps doing journalism as a job someday, and I'd really need the experience.
lol... I see there's a "Lycanthrope" there too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
Pff... He needs to work on his impersonation.
Graal maybe if this goes on you should go see a lawyer. And take him/her to court for Id theft.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
Lol, they'd probably laugh and throw it out as soon as they hear it's about a forum nickname. :P Haven't received a response from RPM yet, so not sure what's going on. While it might seem menial, people really do know me by that name, because even my Twitter account has my real name below it and uses the same profile pic as my Facebook account, and I've met with a lot of people I've met online in person before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weasley
I think you're making a big deal about nothing, the fact that you think your online username on the internet will be harmful to you is a problem in itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
When you get out there into the real world looking for a job, people will judge you on the interview you give, and citing "identity theft" will just make you look like a person who's trying to cover up with excuses. Bottom line, the online world is online, you're foolish to think that it will affect you in the real world.
Do you think authors on this site like Tarryn van der Byl are affected by the comments of other users? No, she just gets out there and does her business, which is why she is so affluent in the gaming scene in SA having written for NAG and this site.
So if you wanna be successful, you have to be good at what you want to do. Not find excuses for why aren't making it.
Nice job on missing the entire point of the post, though. I'm not talking about going out into the 'real world'. I'm talking about finding an online on-the-side journalism job sometime. If you look at my post, though, you'd see I'm not covering up my failures, because I did say I'm too busy right now, meaning I haven't started looking around yet. I can't have 'failed' if I haven't even given it a shot yet. Either way, it probably won't affect my chances of getting a job, because even though the majority of people I know online know me by the forum nick Graal (a nick that I haven't seen used a lot on the internet so far), it's going to be the article they request me to write as an 'interview' that determines whether I get a job or not. So you've got a point there, even though you missed the entire point of my post.