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As you know, the forum has been fighting spammers and bots for years. We have seen our fair share of "Custom Kitchens UK", scammy Internet hosting companies, and bots trying to send us to a business's homepage. But after fighting the tidal wave of spam for so many years, the admins had a persistent thought: what if the spammers are right? Not in terms of posting nonsense links and trying to scam our users, but in trying to make money through our unique platform?

Well, thanks to the helpful counsel of Taunt, we have finally decided to move the forum in a new direction. Please see his important post on the matter in this topic

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metadude1234

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i went on google and i googled my username and it came up with sooo many results with me in it........ :blink: (nervously rubbing hands together gritting teeth)
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Mumbling

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Try looking up mine :p

Naw, just kidding... If I enter my real name I also get a lot of results, now that's scary.


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:blink: (having a major spas attack and trying with all my will power not to laugh like a retard)
facebook.com/venomwargreymon


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I have many different usernames (depends on where you go to which one I use) so I'm much harder to track.  My real name shows up in a couple of places related to where I work and some of my school stuff.  Its not a big deal to me.


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Mine pretty much give results that includes Swedish LBT titles etc.  ;)
As for my real name...
Seems like I don't exist!   :lol
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I have a lot of usernames myself, and some usernames are more common then others, so I guess it depends on the username.

As far as my real name...my real name is so common it's not even funny. :lol Yet I'm laughing....
I'm sure you would get a BAZILLION results for my real name. xD




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My username usually links to Metroid Fusion.

My real name is actually fairly common (first name only)

Poster of the GOF's 200,000th post

Please read and rate: Land Before Time: Twilight Valley - The GOF's original LBT war story.


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My username links to a forum, a Transformers and a Jurassic Park wiki, and a bunch of company's.


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My username has tons of results.  I have several other usernames and they all have results too.  It's not that surprising.


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:blink: ....................
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Well, you won't find Explorer anywhere without specifying either, so, yeah, I don't exist either because all of the parts of my real name are common portuguese names!


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Well, if you look up MY name, the FIRST link connects to my profile here.

Nice! :D


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Its only natural that there are people who are bound to think up the same name as you.


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wow, aparantly Raga is pretty common cause I can't find any links to here, and I thought I had just made it up.  As for my real name, I don't bother trying.  I have the same name (first and last) as a famous actor so I would never find anything about me.


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My name ins't that common, Vaan(360), the first 2 pages are mostly about me :lol
I have links that connects to some posts here, some pokemon forums I've been in,gaming stuff, my FF profile, and other stuff.

Has for my real name, its not very commun, has a first name at least, its kinda weird to see my name  as a second or third in other's people names, creepy.


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Quote from: metadude1234,Apr 13 2009 on  01:32 PM
i went on google and i googled my username and it came up with sooo many results with me in it........ :blink: (nervously rubbing hands together gritting teeth)
Dude, have you tried to google any chinese name with the last name Zhang? :)


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When I searched my GOF username, all I found was about what Cancerian Tigers are: Any Cancerian whose year of birth happened to be the year of the Tiger :p.


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Quote from: Cancerian Tiger,May 9 2009 on  11:15 PM
When I searched my GOF username, all I found was about what Cancerian Tigers are: Any Cancerian whose year of birth happened to be the year of the Tiger :p.
What an apt description.

In any case, apparentely, there's quite a few other people with my name around. Go figure, i'm not gonna find me until I do something incredible.


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I'm only on a small handful of places so I don't care if I'm tracked or not. :p


Petrie.

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Actually, Tim if I type in yours the first link is your profile here. :p