@ojo and swizz - I didn't read the whole thread but I don't think she's back. I just fell into the black hole of one of the linked threads and made the connection. I can't believe I didn't figure that out before.
There's a reg on there who I seriously question, but she's never been called out so I just silently question almost everything she posts.
SO got a troll a year or two ago named GothChick. Premise: mentally ill transgender (into transsexual) 20-something. Received a lot of support at first until the story veered into unbelievable territory. Lots of GBCGBCNing and really creepy SWF behavior towards a few regs. Ellie was brought in and discovered the floating IP address which also happened to match soozy's (and some other one-off trolls that never caught on).
Afterwards, infrequent attempts were made to try and figure out WTF was going on. A young soozy was found on TB/FB/Pinterest that seemed to check out. But then the email address attached to a young soozy profile started leading to multiple aliases, usually centering on an older woman between 45-55 living in either Michigan or Nashville. Some of these aliases are friends with each other on FB.
So...even if the alias thing ends up being some weird coincedence it still brings us back to soozy definitely being GothChick (amongst others). ETA: But I highly doubt it's a coincedence.
Good lord. Soozy has posted questions about baby-rearing on this board before - who the fuck would make that shit up? LAME.
Remind me to get some real hobbies when I'm middle-aged.
SO got a troll a year or two ago named GothChick. Premise: mentally ill transgender (into transsexual) 20-something. Received a lot of support at first until the story veered into unbelievable territory. Lots of GBCGBCNing and really creepy SWF behavior towards a few regs. Ellie was brought in and discovered the floating IP address which also happened to match soozy's (and some other one-off trolls that never caught on).
Afterwards, infrequent attempts were made to try and figure out WTF was going on. A young soozy was found on TB/FB/Pinterest that seemed to check out. But then the email address attached to a young soozy profile started leading to multiple aliases, usually centering on an older woman between 45-55 living in either Michigan or Nashville. Some of these aliases are friends with each other on FB.
So...even if the alias thing ends up being some weird coincedence it still brings us back to soozy definitely being GothChick (amongst others). ETA: But I highly doubt it's a coincedence.
Good lord. Soozy has posted questions about baby-rearing on this board before - who the fuck would make that shit up? LAME.
Remind me to get some real hobbies when I'm middle-aged.
I don't even get the point of faking something so dumb.
I've also been following the Dr. Megan Heimer, JD, FUBAR saga. It's a damn shame all of this is happening at the same time because my attention is split.
Now Vaba is JLM too? I'm just reading the last page, so I might be missing something.
No, that's it.
JLM and L&L were fake accounts she created. Vaba is obviously also full of shit, but apparently she's a real person who went to school with the girl in the JLM picture's brother.
I do wonder sometimes since we rarely get new people if we should go private board.
On one hand, I like this because I'm a giant AW and want EVERYONE to see my kid dammit, but I don't like posting pictures here.
But OTOH, my local board did this and it was not good. We lasted about a year and a half before dying almost completely.
I want to stay open and visible to all too!
I am trying to imagine how a MMM-style catfish scheme would go down. It would be some type of elaborate sob story in order to get 100,000 oz of free donated breast milk, a limited edition Tula and 200 cloth diapers. BORRRING.
OMG I don't even know if I can catch up on this thread, let alone the epic ML one. I am real, and have met misoangry, spunbutterfly, niq, lauralynne, jennlin, and kwpnjumper (actually we knew each other from childhood).
I love dogs like how some people love all newborns and I went through a ROLLER COASTER OF EMOTIONS THAT DAY. *shakes fist*
I donated money to that cause.
Also, she sent me her first name and phone number so I could give it to a friend in the area. Did jermys ever dogsit as she had offered and it looked like vaba was going to take her up on it?
I just fell down the rabbit hole of that thread and learned that no, Vaba flaked on Jermys. I wonder who's name and number you have???
OK, I'm catching up on some of the otterama/ottermama/amaretto/etc. stuff. I always thought she seemed off, so I just steered clear of her posts. But the people defending the Amazon wish list thing, saying she only did it because she was "forced"? No. She came on with a concise whine specifically about how she was sad she wouldn't be able to buy things for her newborn for Christmas, then after ONE person suggested she set up on Amazon wish list, said "Aw, sweet, but you don't hafta..." then one more person said "we want to," and within minutes she was back with a link to the list. I mean, this all happened within the first page. She knew exactly what she was doing.
I don't even know any of these names but what a trainwreck. I can't believe this is how I'm spending my spring break. At least I'm sitting outside enjoying the sun!
I do wonder sometimes since we rarely get new people if we should go private board.
But what's the criteria for getting onto the private board? JLM was a regular, so she probably would have made the cut. People may not have actually met her, but they texted with her and stuff, right?
(Really, I just want to be on the private board and don't want to not make the cut just because I'm geographically isolated from everybody and haven't met people!)
Otter has a long history of questionable behavior. She had another SN prior to amaretto as well, but that pre-dates my time on TN. From my recollection it involved something with the TTTC board.
9. Friend ditches dog at pound, forgets to tell Vaba. Vaba is all oooooh nooooos my preshhhus and people donate to help her.
I love dogs like how some people love all newborns and I went through a ROLLER COASTER OF EMOTIONS THAT DAY. *shakes fist*
This was one thread that I do remember clearly. So people donated and the whole thing was fake??
I do remember lots of people offering to help her with the dog. I was very invested in that story for some reason, I must have been incredibly bored that day bc I read the whole entire huge thread.
On one hand, I like this because I'm a giant AW and want EVERYONE to see my kid dammit, but I don't like posting pictures here.
But OTOH, my local board did this and it was not good. We lasted about a year and a half before dying almost completely.
I want to stay open and visible to all too!
I am trying to imagine how a MMM-style catfish scheme would go down. It would be some type of elaborate sob story in order to get 100,000 oz of free donated breast milk, a limited edition Tula and 200 cloth diapers. BORRRING.
I do wonder sometimes since we rarely get new people if we should go private board.
As a lurker who's trying to post more, I would be really sad if you guys went to a private board. I think it's a great resource for new moms and it's a way to pass naptimes while holding my baby the whole time. This board is also really welcoming, which is nice. I like to lurk on ML, but it's way too fast for me to jump in (although I've also spent wayyyyy too much of the last 24 hours reading that thread). I have no one to vouch for my identity (I live in the middle of nowhere), but I swear I'm not crazy/catfish/ae. I post about thrush and sleep too much to have any sort of agenda or be looking for attention
Otter has a long history of questionable behavior. She had another SN prior to amaretto as well, but that pre-dates my time on TN. From my recollection it involved something with the TTTC board.
I believe she collected money from the TTTC board regs to give to one of their members, and then never sent the money.
Otter has a long history of questionable behavior. She had another SN prior to amaretto as well, but that pre-dates my time on TN. From my recollection it involved something with the TTTC board.
I believe she collected money from the TTTC board regs to give to one of their members, and then never sent the money.
I believe she collected money from the TTTC board regs to give to one of their members, and then never sent the money.
Shocking!
(Not really.)
But even before that, there was a lot of drama and histrionics. IIRC, she was IF due to a birth defect and was unable to conceive on her own; there was more than one lengthy, offensive vent about adoption, which even turned to posts about being suicidal. The person she organized the collection for on the IF boards had many, many sad setbacks on her journey to becoming a parent and left the boards right around the time the collection was done, and I don't think she ever confirmed if she got the money or not.
Post by germangirl88 on Apr 16, 2014 13:52:47 GMT -5
I just intro over there on the wrong day and got ran over by a train from them calling fake. I was just hoping to talk to people about moving and such. I also lurked over here before making an account a hour ago to see if there were any money saving tips. Ive read just about every post on the nest money matters
I just intro over there on the wrong day and got ran over by a train from them calling fake. I was just hoping to talk to people about moving and such. I also lurked over here before making an account a hour ago to see if there were any money saving tips. Ive read just about every post on the nest money matters
Aw, welcome. Just post normal stuff for the next five years and you'll be fine.