"This could be outing"

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TalkToTheHand123 · 14/08/2026 22:20

Is it me or are people not seriously paranoid? There are millions of people in the country so people getting jittery believing they could be outed over personal statements seems a bit daft.

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AlgaeDreams · Yesterday 01:10

GarlicAnywhere · 15/08/2026 00:37

Some people are incredibly good at linguistic detection. I was (online) close to someone on another forum, who'd studied forensic linguistics. She messaged me after recognising my style on here. Clever woman!

It's easy to profile me from 18 years' worth of posts on here, despite name changes. I've never done a search on myself, but assume it would only be slightly confounded by the fact that there are other Garlics on MN. I'm just not very intriguing, though 😂 WYSIWYG.

It would be funny to identify forum users who bullshit about their real lives. If I had the skills to do it, I'd be so tempted to drop tiny grenades in my replies to them. Has anyone done that?

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I had someone comment on my style of posting and they said they knew who I was (am?).

Not in real life or anything interesting, they thought I was another poster. Another poster that was clearly far more interesting than me to make an impression.

I keep meaning to change my username because I'm just a blabbermouth. I don't really care to be honest.

notwittywithusernames · Yesterday 06:23

Just did the ChatGPT thing...apparently I talk a lot about my favourite curries from supermarkets near me. Is that too outing 😥

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 06:28

I've tried ChatGPT with a few usernames. It has invented quotes that don't exist, said I started threads I didn't start and attributed quotes to me that belong to someone else. I can't stand it. This is our future. People pour garbage into this, get garbage back out and think they've won the argument.

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