Sock Puppets

[izabsmiling]

I see the term used a bit .I thought the term meant different people who shared the same opinion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/19/munchausen-by-internet-health-support-sites

Munchausen by internet can be bad for your health forum

As paraplegic blogger 'David Rose' is exposed as a hoax, here are some tips to recognise fake illness claims on support sites

Based on more than 100 cases of Munchausen by internet shared with me via my Munchausen website, I have arrived at a list of clues to the detection of false internet illness ...

1. The posts consistently duplicate material in other posts, in books or on health-related websites.

2. The characteristics of the supposed illness emerge as caricatures.

3. Near-fatal bouts of illness alternate with miraculous recoveries.

4. The claims are fantastic, contradicted by subsequent posts or flatly disproved.

5. There are continual dramatic events in the person's life, especially when other group members hav...

6. There is feigned blitheness about crises that will predictably attract immediate attention.

7. Others apparently posting on behalf of the patient (eg family members, friends) have identical pa...

The most important lesson is that, while most people visiting virtual support groups are honest, eve...

[izabsmiling]

I  honestly can't explain it in a way that you could relate to 

[catsnknots]

Why post a comment that no one can understand then?? 

[izabsmiling]

Sorry Cats Back,Your post wasn't there when I was doing mine.

I think the last link I added which mentions False accusations of Munchausen by Proxy says things better than i could..much safer and healthier for me that way too.

[margomeoz]

she;s not, she thrives on the attention 😉

I hardly read and hardly post but on the odd occassion I do it is a bit worrying how often we agree.

Most definitely about this post.

[azureline**]

Az are you suggesting Iza private messages someone to revive her old threads....If yes, I suggest that is a bad idea. Don't expect anyone would like to receive such a message.

Very old revived threads revived by the original poster (whoever it is) generally says to me they are desperate to be seen and heard. Far better to start a new one IMO.

no... no suggestion of anything of the kind.... tongue in cheek comment following on from other threads......I think Iza understood what it meant? and Freddie followed it up with another joke.... so I think she got it.

[Anonymous]

It's OK ozgirl, I'll ask around if anyone remembers or knows who that id was. I wonder if it's who I think it was LOL,

thanks anyway  🙂

post 164,239 to 164,250 are a bit strange 

jmho of course

 http://community.ebay.com.au/topic/Community-Spirit/Round-Table-Revisited/600125510?start=6400#msg505138680

[catsnknots]

hm.. so this is now an RT/ Stringer thing?? 

:^O

Love how that always happens.. 

[katymatey*]

Hate to say it, but I agree with Hawk. 

Didn't think I would ever say that.

[j*oono]

hm.. so this is now an RT/ Stringer thing?? 

:^O

Love how that always happens.. 

Hahaha it must be Cats.  Annie is searching revisited :^O

Let it go ladies.  

[*crikey*mate*]