Fake photos on profiles

Bet there's nothing underneath their skirts :)

Hardly "nothing"....

I applogize for the redundancy, but this blog does raise some serious issues and my previous post was ignored. Let’s compare the two scenarios:

(1)   One person uses some photos which are not her owns. Maybe to conceal her identity, maybe to see which kind of response a person with a different look will get. Maybe for some other reason.

(2)    Another person starts a blog full of innuendo, accusations and insults. The whole blog is targeting another person.  The member targeted is identified with chess.com username and one of her personal messages to a 3rd party is published without permission. Other members respond to the blogs and add to the insults. The innuendo and insults includes:

"Con-artist", "predator", "sock puppet", "deliberately deceive those around them" , "real bully" , "fooled a lot of vulnerable people", "build a false persona", "capable of cheating in their games" ,"fakes and the cheats" , "sleaze" and "creep"   

Now, which of the two people acted most worst? Try to think about it a bit? Why do some here have such a desire to shame and attack others and never introspect? Let he who has never sinned throw the first stone.

Here are some news for you. Pretty much everyone lies or re-invent themselves online at least to some extend. Key examples which are commenly mis-represented includes: “personal assets, relationship goals, personal interests, personal attributes, past relationships, weight, and age”

http://spr.sagepub.com/content/27/1/117.abstract
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/close-encounters/201407/can-you-really-trust-the-people-you-meet-online

Start with that assumption and you will not so easily be “shocked” when you learn that the real person behind the screen is slightly different. 

If you want to meet a real person, ask for Facebook, work email and phone number… then meet in real life. 

Lol Graham :)

Pulp, how did you get hold of that photo?  It was taken a long time ago and we were both working as kilt models for an exclusive magazine.  

I replied to you in full several times Joakim

Joakim you seem to be attracted like a magnet to the most ridiculous fake id's on this site. Don't be surprised when we find them out and burst your bubble!

Of course, my last post was a joke, but we can all play the game of "embellishing" our image online, as Joakim seems to be implying.  The reason I single out one particular member is that they have built up a persona here that is supposed to be honest, strong, independent.  This is given the lie by her behaviour.   There are plenty of others like that on the site, and I dare say more than a few inhabit Joakim's friend list.  I do not like making personal attacks on other members, but I am not someone who will stand by and say nothing when I find someone is actively trying to deceive others, for whatever reason.  If you do, you are morally no better than the deceiver, and you had better be prepared to defend your own complicity in this behaviour. 

And... for your eyes only...

Hear! Hear! Graham :) I adore sensible honest people on this site:)

Pulpette!  

And here I was thinking you were a sultry Signorita...

Aha, my old sparring partner.  Got yer kilt ironed and the boxing gloves waxed?  

I can believe it, they're draughty in the winter and tickly in the summer.  

Sorry, but I love when he calls me muckle scunner...

Plenty of bagpipes on my wife's country too. To be honest, unless they are playing a slow pace (style "outlawed tunes with outlawed pipes", I must be very drunk to endure them.

That would explain your profile pic.  Were you attending a concert by the band of the Coldstream Guards?  

Just googled it...

Alright, maybe I am a bit slow, but please tell me...

1) You appear to agree that is not that bad and rather common to use pictures which are not you or you when you were much younger or thinner or whatever 

but:

2) In this case you feel it justified to shame and name a chess.com member, not because of anything she has ever done, posted  or played, but because of her pictures

and, without reporting to chess.com or discussing in "Cheating Forum" group you claim that she cheats in her games here?

.... and you call her and others based only on photos used:

"Con-artist", "predator", "sock puppet", "deliberately deceive those around them" , "real bully" , "fooled a lot of vulnerable people", "build a false persona", "cheating in their games" ,"fake and the cheat" , "sleaze" and "creep"   

Would that sum it up? 

Cheating can be discussed in this group, please do not discuss in public group notes:
https://www.chess.com/groups/view/cheating-forum

I am saying that it's every member's choice to post whatever pic they like.  Most of the time, this is a fairly trivial matter as nobody is being harmed or mislead.  What I do take exception to is when a member deliberately sets out to mislead others and attract attention with model pics culled from the internet.  I this case it is pretty obvious the member enjoys the attention those pictures bring her, and until recently was changing them more frequently, no doubt to bring more compliments.  Fair enough, you may say, so what is the harm in that?   All right, if it is really no big deal then you will have no objection to me revealing the truth about this member's activities.  

When that member then tries to silence one of her critics with a thinly-disguised threatening message, I take that as a indicator of their true character.  I notice that you have nothing to say about that message to LadyoftheKnight, can I take that to mean that you approve of that kind of behaviour?  The fact that you have tried to close down and silence this thread ever since you came on here suggests that you do think it is a serious matter, and are more than willing to do somebody else's dirty work for them.  

I do not for my profile picture. So it is a false picture: D