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Originally Posted by xxxxenophile
I for one would like to see you start a thread called "The Honestly True Stories About People Naked Around Me" and frame it as only for those who will believe you, so the Mods have to delete any "I call bullshit!" posts!
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This reminds me of a time, long, long ago, when I was part of a composer's forum (as in classical music), being a professional musician and all. Forums like that rarely attracted the pros because we rarely had time to screw around on forums, but I thought I was being helpful. People called my bluff all the freakin' time. Drove me insane.
Finally, once the technology became available to "prove" myself (that is how long ago this was), and I revealed my actual identity and my CV with "proof" as best as I could, everyone was shocked that I was telling the truth the whole time.
I tried to explain that it would have been far more work to make crap up for 5+ years than it was to just tell the truth. After that moment, I realized that, like other pros, I didn't have time to waste with people on a forum, and it was no longer worth my efforts to help people when I had real life work to do. And I haven't been back since (if that forum even exists; certainly not in the way it did back then, at least).