But It all goes back to the idea floating around here that every new person who joins is an alt. Yeah, it has been proven there are some but not everyone is... it think it's bad for potential membership growth and needs to stop.
Agreed.
It's myopic-and-hyperbolic to assume that anything other than a small proportion of members are alts. Of those who we know about, the
vast majority (practically all) of them are well-known, upstanding members who happen to have created alts for a bit of fun. Thankfully the behaviour of such peeps is good. The odd alt-troll, not-so-much.
A great example of the DS I refer to was illustrated the other day by a pic of a post from the other site. It said:
"... you lose your guitar-playing focus by constantly arguing with paid posters and bots."
To me this is hilarious and the hyperbole is beyond-hyperbole because:
A) There are no paid posters. None. Never have been.
B) I'm not aware of any bot's ever having argued with a member even once. They're doomed to short lives here and are bant in a game of Whack-a-Mole.
C) So we not only have 2 lies here, but it's then claimed that one has to "constantly" argue with these accounts.
That's quite a feat, doing something impossible constantly, but it serves as an example of the sort of hyperbolic, myopic, self-fulfilling-prophecy-style conclusions and assumptions possible in an echo chamber, be that located either in one's head or in a forum.
Squatchy, I hear you when you say you think it needs to stop, but it's a free world in here and if peeps want to see the bogeyman under every rock, they're fully-entitled to do so.
The thing the mods don't like to see is constant accusations of peeps' being paid to cause shit. Nobody gets paid a dime for anything here. Fact. Just wish those peeps would stop peddling this lie 'cause as we've seen, if you throw enough mud at something eventually something will stick, in this case its a falsehood that through repetition becomes a belief for some.
