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Post by sidburn on Dec 25, 2010 23:59:09 GMT -5
On Yahoo, FreeRepublic, Topix, etc? What sort of persona did you create? Did people buy into it? How far did you push it? (I try to be as realistically outrageous as I can, but keep it within certain boundaries of good taste) What are some of the things you said as a Poe?
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Post by Tiberius on Dec 26, 2010 0:32:34 GMT -5
My suggestions would be to play a woman, preferably one with kids, so you can complain hilariously about the evil games they play. Such a persona allows you to chip in on absolutelyu every issue.
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Post by shykid on Dec 26, 2010 1:41:28 GMT -5
Not quite. I prefer to subtly provoke genuine fundies into saying ridiculous and hateful things. I've basically mastered this and gotten it down to an art, though I mostly only do it in real life. It's fun to gently guide someone into inserting their foot in their mouth with their own bile.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 26, 2010 2:32:15 GMT -5
Tried? I got myself submitted to the main page.
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Post by The_L on Dec 26, 2010 5:01:36 GMT -5
I tried, but levitation is hard and my lantern wasnt the right shape.
Seriously, no. I WAS one of those people for long enough that I can come up with cringeworthy stories without pretending.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Dec 26, 2010 5:12:57 GMT -5
Not exactly. If I'm being blatantly sarcastic and someone fails to pick up on it, I'll sometimes run with it for a bit, but I usually don't intentionally set out to be a poe.
I sometimes go for stealth irony on RR, though it's not really about tricking people into thinking I'm a fundie so much as seeing if any of them are actually able to pick up on it.
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Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Dec 26, 2010 8:34:00 GMT -5
I once created a persona called Screaming Troll for cracked.com on an article on trolling and posted everything in all caps, blamed Obama, predicted the apocalypse and misspelled every third word!
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Post by Sigmaleph on Dec 26, 2010 12:59:09 GMT -5
A Poe is someone who is mistaken for a fundy when being sarcastic, not someone who pretends to be the real thing[/pedant]
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Post by shykid on Dec 26, 2010 13:13:30 GMT -5
Not exactly. If I'm being blatantly sarcastic and someone fails to pick up on it, I'll sometimes run with it for a bit, but I usually don't intentionally set out to be a poe. I do that too. |
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Dec 26, 2010 14:07:07 GMT -5
There's a guy named Captain Planet on mens-rights. He exists for the sole purpose of proving, "No, you fucking dumbasses, it's not that I'm too stupid to 'get the issues.' In fact, you're so ridiculously one-dimensional that, if I always take an anti-female stance & throw the word 'cunt' around like confetti, you'll suddenly think I'm some kind of genius."
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Post by Mira on Dec 26, 2010 15:20:55 GMT -5
I tried, but levitation is hard and my lantern wasnt the right shape. *shoots L with an arrow and collects her in a bottle* |
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Post by sidburn on Dec 26, 2010 15:27:50 GMT -5
As for me, I recently tried being a very deeply undercover Poe on a Yahoo message board, which I mention on this board under "Yahoo melts down even harder than FR on DADT". I said increasingly outrageous and over the top things and actually got several right-wing posters to admit that they admired Hitler. I don't think they were joking.
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Post by ironbite on Dec 26, 2010 15:58:30 GMT -5
I tried, but levitation is hard and my lantern wasnt the right shape. Seriously, no. I WAS one of those people for long enough that I can come up with cringeworthy stories without pretending. OH I GET IT! |
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Post by dasfuchs on Dec 26, 2010 16:20:51 GMT -5
I can't try being a poe to this extent, it makes me feel unclean
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Post by lighthorseman on Dec 26, 2010 16:24:03 GMT -5
I can't try being a poe to this extent, it makes me feel unclean Yeah, I tried Poeing it up over at RR for a while... I couldn't handle it either. |
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