[Closed] Do the mods know who we are?

Yes.

Yes,they have you fully profiled.To be honest it's a bit worrying and those high heels are a size too small.

I'd think that , depending on the amount of personal detail you've divulged on the forum, then anyone with the inclination and Google could find out exactly who you are in about 5 minutes flat.

Yes,they have you fully profiled.To be honest it's a bit worrying and those high heels are a size too small.

So they know me, and have passed that knowledge on to you?!?

they definitely have my e-mail address 😳

I was wrong - it only took 2 minutes. Nice frock by the way.

If any non-mods care, [url= https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=active&q=mike+mctimoney+-chiro* ]this is me[/url].

There's really not much details to know, and I have all my limited profile details set to public anyway. So what else is there to know?

I was wrong - it only took 2 minutes.

Jeez. 😯

You know, I've never thought to look.

You look lovely when you're asleep.

Searching for myself has revealed that Russia Today say I once told them something, which I haven't.

but can the mods see the details behind our usernames?

Dullest.Perk.Eva.

It takes about 10 seconds for anyone to find out who I am... But tbh I doubt anyone cares that much 😆 People who have a seperate internet "persona" are weird, if there's something you want private, don't shout it through a megaphone and if there's something you don't want coming back to you, you should already know not to say it.

IMO 😉

Searching for myself has revealed that Russia Today say I once told them something, which I haven't.

No surprise from RT, then.

I was wrong - it only took 2 minutes. Nice frock by the way.

Frock? he was in a bathrobe when I looked. 😯

It goes with the heels, fh.

That's enough now, perchy.

Frock? he was in a bathrobe when I looked.

Strictly speaking it was a cassock but that wasn't as funny.

I Am Legion

[url= https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mike+dudley&biw=1280&bih=929&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixxKm3m_rMAhVlBsAKHephCyUQsAQIKw#tbm=isch&q=michael+dudley ]Sssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh[/url]

We can also access cameras on your devices, so touching of you to make a Joe Cocker shrine.

Well I couldn't find anything out about Northwind or Saxonrider by what's on STW, without combing threads.

[i], so touching of you to make a Joe Cocker shrine. [/i]

Has he died?

Quick start a thread so people know!!

molgrips - Member

Well I couldn't find anything out about Northwind or Saxonrider by what's on STW, without combing threads.

Not from one place I suppose but I've been northwind on the internet for pretty much as long as there's been a modern internet so you leave a trail, especially if you're a total loudmouth/pub bore, which I am.

I used to play Eve Online and in the middle of an interstellar spaceship square go an american voice came on the voice channel, "Are you Northwind from SVrider.com? With the green bike?" Years since I'd been on that forum from the other side of the world, and also, in space 😆

Well I couldn't find anything out about Northwind or Saxonrider by what's on STW, without combing threads.

To be fair, SaxonRider was an easy target.
As would anyone else be who has been riding the same strava segments as him at the same time. 😈

so touching of you to make a Joe Cocker

That'd be better on the "what have you made lately" thread

I'd think that , depending on the amount of personal detail you've divulged on the forum, then anyone with the inclination and Google could find out exactly who you are in about 5 minutes flat.

A couple of years ago I tried this with a random selection of usernames to see if this was true. About 70-80% of the time I could find the users real name and address within about 10-15 minutes.

The reason i did it was that i thought it possible that my details had been used to locate and nick one of my bikes from home so i was curious to find out how easy it would be to make the connection. In most cases it was pretty easy.

So, you started off with me? Or yourself? Confused.

To be fair, SaxonRider was an easy target. As would anyone else be who has been riding the same strava segments as him at the same time.

I think I don't understand Strava.

I tried to set it so that it doesn't show what I ride to within 100 metres of my house. If I'm so easy to identify, I really hope it's worked.

I tried to set it so that it doesn't show what I ride to within 100 metres of my house. If I'm so easy to identify, I really hope it's worked.

100 metres isn't very far and if you've only entered the one blocked location then I think you're at the centre of that 100 metre circle so you might as well just stick a pin on the map in the right place.

If you want to hide your location a little more effectively then you need to create a series of seemingly random overlapping areas that you are somewhere within.

So, you started off with me? Or yourself? Confused.

Nope - SaxonRider is easy to locate on t'internet because we all know which city he lives in and he has a pretty unique career compared to the rest of us.

Once you know that, he's easy to find on Google, then on Strava.

I tried to set it so that it doesn't show what I ride to within 100 metres of my house

You did and unless you give permission for someone to follow you then only your achievements on your last ride are visible to all.
But, the league tables for the segments where you live are available to all and anyone who could be arsed could trawl through the local segments, find you and identify who was riding with you at the same time.

i.e. probably molgrips.

See, I couldn't remember if he'd posted on here what his job is so I didn't search for that.

if you've only entered the one blocked location then I think you're at the centre of that 100 metre circle

Doesn't work like that. You draw the circle on Strava, but then it shows your rides as finishing at an exact point which is randomly anywhere within that circle.

Just get rid of Strava it's much easier.

Doesn't work like that. You draw the circle on Strava, but then it shows your rides as finishing at an exact point which is randomly anywhere within that circle.

Ok, happy to be corrected. Has that always been the case or did they change the way it works at some point and does the idea of setting multiple overlapping exclusion zones have any merit or is that a bit overkill?

Just get rid of Strava it's much easier.

Strava was just one example though. You leave a digital trail behind you everywhere you go. Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, employers websites, the list is endless.
The Strava example was only to wind molgrips up a bit.

Good point though - I've made a slight effort to cover my internet tracks, but Strava links people together now.

I'm no better.
I've just typed in to google a four word search based on broad generic terms based on what i do for a living, which i've made no secret of, and the town in which I live, again no secret....... and my grinning face (which I recently posted on here) was the fourth result.

Captured in 15 secs. 😳

Ok,it was me that left that box of Milk Tray on your doorstep perchy 😉

I tried that, found a lot of other people with my first name (available from my public email address).

've just typed in to google a four word search based on broad generic terms based on what i do for a living, which i've made no secret of, and the town in which I live,again no secret. and my grinning face (which I recently poosted on here) was the fourth result.

You'd need to do that with a "clean" browser, i.e. either in porn mode or with all cookies etc deleted. Otherwise you're probably getting google's scary optimisation stuff, which will make searching for yourself a lot easier.

Never mind the MoD's someone tracked me down via here to ask me who the support band was at a Pogues concert in Edinburgh in 1988! And I managed to get him an answer..it was entirely made up of course, or was it?

I found out this morning that if you make a formal complaint to Twitter about someone stalking or abusing you on there then Twitter helpfully send your real name and address to the person you've made the complaint about.

Which seems somewhat counter-intuitive.

Ronnie who?

I had a friend who sent someone what they thought would be an "anonymous" email from a newly created Gmail account. Turns out there's no such thing as anonymity on the Internet!

In South Africa (and now in Spain I've found) you have to give ID to get yourself a SIM card. So no hiding behind a burner-phone either.

I tried that, found a lot of other people with my first name

Weirdly my unusual surname makes me slightly harder to find, because it finds a bunch of chiropractors called Mike. Hence the [i]-chiro*[/i] in the Google search I shared earlier.

I had a friend who sent someone what they thought would be an "anonymous" email from a newly created Gmail account. Turns out there's no such thing as anonymity on the Internet!

I 'anonymously' set up a blog. When The Times reported it they used my full name, though that's now hidden behind their paywall: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1500600,00.html

I tried that, found a lot of other people with my first name (available from my public email address).

Ten minutes and I reckon I know who you are.

I used to moderate on a big audio forum and that software would show you all the IPs a user had posted from, and other users who had posted from the same IP etc, so you could find fake users quite easily.

See, I couldn't remember if he'd posted on here what his job is so I didn't search for that.

I actually haven't.

I actually haven't.

Not explicitly but you've given enough info on your field of expertise and the subject of your PhD that it narrowed the search parameters significantly..there are only so many places that a fellow with those skills could find gainful employment.
Nice hat, by the way. Matches the frock magnificently.

Also ....have tracked down the real identity of molgrips in an idle 10 mins. 😉 More than 20 PR's on your ride on Monday - Chapeau!

I suspect linkedin might have helped you there PP - otherwise, no idea! I think my name's abbreviated on Strava?

Anyway, feel free to pop over, I'm giving the Kona a bit of TLC, and the kettle's boiled.

More than 20 PR's on your ride on Monday - Chapeau!

Thanks, but it's ride I've only done twice 🙂

your field of expertise and the subject of your PhD

I knew I was revealing a bit, but because I have never come out and said anything specific (as far as I remember), I thought I was being moderately discrete!

Alas, I don't actually mind people knowing who I am particularly; I just wouldn't want my posts to be judged based on presupposition.

Incidentally, there are at least two people on this forum who post from my IP address. Lest the mods think I'm cheating.

Thanks, but it's ride I've only done twice

Random Kudos nonetheless 😉
Wouldn't want to have you at a disadvantage. It's only fair.

I'm genuinely interested to know how you lot found me - feel free to email me to explain.. and no I'm not phishing for revenge 🙂

Incidentally, there are at least two people on this forum who post from my IP address. Lest the mods think I'm cheating.

Just one from one of your regular IPs but not your main one.

My name is in my public profile. I think this would be a better place if everyone was obliged to use their (verified) real names

Op,

Yes, they know.

🙂

My name is in my public profile. I think this would be a better place if everyone was obliged to use their (verified) real names

My original login was just my full real name (mikemctimoney) but my students kept finding me online, so I started using this name. It was always possible to get from this name/activity to my real name, but the intention was that it was hard to find me online starting from my real name.

They found me anyway.

In the end I decided that I'd just never post anything online that I wouldn't say to a colleague while walking through the student common room. Much simpler.

I was chatting about this today with the [url= http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/prost-8-riders-aim-high-for-prostate-cancer-uk/ ]Prost 8[/url] guys while accompanying them through Rothiemurchus. It's amazing how easy it is to find the real person from their internet personas. There's folk on here I've never met/had any dealings with who still refer to me as Onion and/or my real name.

Bizarrely given no info but my user name threw up "the hundredth idiot" who rides bikes but is definitely not me.

In the end I decided that I'd just never post anything online that I wouldn't say to a colleague while walking through the student common room.

This is a very good policy, and one I try to adhere to. I've always operated on the principle that I could be found, and have therefore tried to keep the tone of what I say mature and appropriate for a variety of audiences.

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In the end I decided that I'd just never post anything online that I wouldn't say to a colleague while walking through the student common room.

Never post anything that I wouldn't want my wife to read.

My name is in my public profile. I think this would be a better place if everyone was obliged to use their (verified) real names

Good way to kill off a site - I don't think I would stay.

[quote=scotroutes ]I was chatting about this today with the Prost 8 guys while accompanying them through Rothiemurchus. It's amazing how easy it is to find the real person from their internet personas. There's folk on here I've never met/had any dealings with who still refer to me as Onion and/or my real name.

or you think you've not met

I don't think I would stay.

Still not seeing a downside tbh :Wink:

Joke I agree with you tbh but anonymity, or the perception thereof allows us to act in ways we would not in the real world

This is both good and bad.

Well I can now recommend that you don't google image search 'footflaps' unless you like seeing pictures of feet in various stages of decomposition / surgical re-assembly....

Good way to kill off a site - I don't think I would stay.

You could just make a name up as no one would know it wasn't your real name.

Do you go around interrupting other people's real life conversations and having them gagged because you don't approve of what they are saying, Scotroutes?

[quote=perchypanther ]Never post anything that I wouldn't want my wife to read.

Tea's ready dear.

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Do you go around interrupting other people's real life conversations and having them gagged because you don't approve of what they are saying, Scotroutes?

The first 2 words of your quote is your answer.

scotroutes - Member

Reported.

(falls foul of the rules, Jules)
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The "troll" tag came after a conversation about EU law and it's implications for Internet site content, Drac.

Ah. Perhaps the Mods need to issue a clarification regarding the use if certain phrases related to the physical abuse of women. I had a warning / post removed on that same thread for a very similar post.

Thanks for the explanation, Scotroutes. I didn't know that you had had a post removed and thought it was just a gratuitous thread report from someone who wasn't taking part in the conversation.

Do the mods care who we are?

FIFY

I did suggest this in my op, bikebuoy.

Not that I think any of them would have enough time on their hands, or even care

A couple of years ago I tried this with a random selection of usernames to see if this was true. About 70-80% of the time I could find the users real name and address within about 10-15 minutes.

I'd be curious as to what you (or anyone else) could find about me given,

a) I've tried to separate my account here from personal details generally and,

b) In Real Life I've got an Internet footprint the size of Belgium.

And also, you know, I'll abuse privs if you work it out. (-:

The "troll" tag came after a conversation about EU law

FWIW, we (Moderators) don't have access to that.