I'm not afraid of you, Ghost!
"Ghost Accounts" are what I'm calling additional accounts created por an already existing fanpop member to skew the results of a pick or an argument in their favor. I have read things posted por other Fanpoppers suggesting their existence in the past, but hadn't knowingly spotted any for myself. Tonight I believe I spotted three different people doing this.
The first example I discovered through a series of picks created por a user that I had never seen around before. I'm all for new users, so I answered the picks and made some comments. Within the comment sections of these picks, I noticed two other users that I had never seen before. The thing is, the three users didn't always answer the same way, but their comments were always similarly rude. I decided to compare all three users and I discovered that they had much in common. They had all joined fanpop this month, none of them belonged to any spots, aside from their ícones - their fanpop user pages were all blank, and they had all answered picks from the exact same four spots, and only those four spots.
I found the segundo example within a pick that had been answered 444 times. This pick had three pages of comments, and on the segundo page, I saw the following: Three comments that said the exact same thing, in a row. All three user names were different but fit the same pattern, Girls-first-name followed immediately por a two digit number. An example of what they looked like is "Mary25". And all three belonged to users that had no icons, contributions, or information to speak of. Not to mention they didn't belong to a single spot.
The third, and luckily, final example I noticed was within the exact same pick as the segundo example. As I mentioned, this particular pick had three pages of comments. After leitura through them, I went back to check the results of the pick. I found the option that came in segundo place particularly odd because in those three pages of comments, I hadn't seen a single one in support of it. This option had been added to the pick por a user other than the picks creator. I went ahead and clicked on the person who added this option only to discover, you guessed it, that their user page was blank! In fact, this was the only pick they had ever answered.
Obviously, I have no way of knowing if these are in fact "Ghost Accounts", but the coincidences seem overwhelmingly in favor of that being the case. Since I had never before noticed behavior such as this, and I noticed it three whole times today, I decided to think of three reasons that creating these accounts to answer picks is just plain silly. Without further ado:
#1 - You Know Better!
It's not a presidential election, fanpop is for fun! There is no point in seeing your choice win if you know it isn't genuine. Do you really think that seeing your favorito thing "win" a pick will have mais impact on someone than leitura your well thought-out, well written comments would?
#2 - It's disrespectful to Other Users
There are two main functions to posting a pick. One is that you get to share your opinions with others. The other is that you get to see what other people think. por tampering with the results of a pick, you deprive its maker of the latter por making said results inaccurate. I know that when I post a pick, what I most enjoy afterwards is leitura the comments that it spawned from others. It's great to make your opinion known, but use comments to do so. I guarantee that they will be read.
#3 - Being in the Minority is OK
So what if your opinion is not the popular one. Take pride in the fact that you're an independent thinker or that you see something where few others do. Or better yet, flex your debate skills por trying to persuade others to see your point.
So those are my reasons. I know that most of you who are leitura this are cool, respectful people who realize the idiocy of committing the aforementioned act. I was just annoyed with what I saw tonight so I had to release my irritation somewhere. Thanks for listening.
If I was cool, I would say where this image came from here
Let me tell you how I first discovered fanpop. (Just bored so thought I'd write this)
I was on the net looking for pictures. I then came across a site (Which is this one really) and clicked the link.
I never knew what this site was or what and thought it was one of those many sites like twitter and Facebook.
Browsing some mais I accidentally landed on someone's perfil page and scrolling down say there were pic's looking like cubes. On topo, início there were titled 'Clubs'.
I noticed a familiar ícone of my favourite actor and clicked on it.
It was cool, it was like a website just full of that actors info.
I noticed they had quizzes and took part.
Than I released that you had to sign up to record what you got right/wrong etc.
Thats when I decided to log on and realised I was SOOO ADDICTED TO IT!
(Hey I don't even spend so0 much time like this on Facebook!)
So that was how I discovered Fanpop-not to dramatic or interesting, but i found my rabbit hole.
Whats yours?
I was on the net looking for pictures. I then came across a site (Which is this one really) and clicked the link.
I never knew what this site was or what and thought it was one of those many sites like twitter and Facebook.
Browsing some mais I accidentally landed on someone's perfil page and scrolling down say there were pic's looking like cubes. On topo, início there were titled 'Clubs'.
I noticed a familiar ícone of my favourite actor and clicked on it.
It was cool, it was like a website just full of that actors info.
I noticed they had quizzes and took part.
Than I released that you had to sign up to record what you got right/wrong etc.
Thats when I decided to log on and realised I was SOOO ADDICTED TO IT!
(Hey I don't even spend so0 much time like this on Facebook!)
So that was how I discovered Fanpop-not to dramatic or interesting, but i found my rabbit hole.
Whats yours?
Most of you probably don't care because you have a PC or don't upload imagens that much.
It didn't really get on my nerves before, but now I want to upload heroes screencaps to the heroes spot which I have a die-hard medal in and I know PC users can upload much mais than five imagens at a time; especially if they have a die hard medal in the spot they want to upload in.
I know you can open loads of tabs but then again it is mais work and annoying.
It's unfair on people who like to contribute anyway, so I hope there is some change in the image uploader for mac users.
P.S. If you joke and say I should have a PC or whatever, then very funny but no.
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Plugging away at our laptops
Ten years ago, fanpop made its presence on the Internet and people joined the site one way or another. I first found out about fanpop when I did a google Image procurar on "link". That was back in May 2010, in which I signed up for the site as CHILDISHY; now I use my ReptarZolo account to match with my current DeviantArt account. All those years, fanpop became cluttered with various types of violative content, including and especially pornography. With only four admins, I don't believe fanpop will last any longer; this can be prevented if the admins promote some users, preferably those they trust, to become moderators and help clean up the site.
Ok so I'm sooo sorry If I waited to long to do the story I SWEAR! that i'm going to do it tomorrow i'm so sorry. I have to many problems and i'm very emotional the last couple of days and it's a big problem with my family and i'm very sad but i really will start the story I swear! I cant really tell u about my family issues but I need someone to talk to. But on the other hand if you can be my co-writer i would amor that but you have to be good like not basic, you know how when people push the story too fast...
Example for some of you dumbass trifflin bunda cunt bunda bitches: Yolanda dated this boy named Prince then he bullied her then he liked her afterwards the got married had a baby named Rolanda and Prince got hit por a car trying to see an old friend a cruz the rua 2 years later Yolanda sold Rolanda n got on crack,died, and lived happily ever after with Prince in heaven.
Example for some of you dumbass trifflin bunda cunt bunda bitches: Yolanda dated this boy named Prince then he bullied her then he liked her afterwards the got married had a baby named Rolanda and Prince got hit por a car trying to see an old friend a cruz the rua 2 years later Yolanda sold Rolanda n got on crack,died, and lived happily ever after with Prince in heaven.
[note: when I first made this artigo "clubs" were called "spots" so just imagine anything that says "spot" actually says "club" ;)]
Well it seems like people are always asking how so here is a step por step guide on how to with images, yay! (there is a little thing in the perguntas frequentes but people seem to relate to imagens better)
Step 1: Make sure you are on the fanpop main page
Step 2: procurar for the spot first so there are no duplicates (if not then go back to the main page)
Step 3: Scroll down till you see this image and click "create new spot"
Step 4: Type in the name of the spot...
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Well it seems like people are always asking how so here is a step por step guide on how to with images, yay! (there is a little thing in the perguntas frequentes but people seem to relate to imagens better)
