OT Poll How much are you like your forum persona?

Alneyan · #1 November 13th, 2005, 10:09 AM

I went for 50/50, but I'm not sure how high the proportion should be. What I say varies depending on the context: speaking French around certain users (say, other university students) is bound to be different from writing English on a forum with different users. Either way, it will only reflect a part of what I am, and never the whole: these 3,000 posts contain some information, a lot of it repeated very often, but they can't contain the whole (just like after a few hours of conversation).

I also don't post all the time, whereas I *am* all the time, so some of my moodiness is unlikely to show. And I suppose there's always that dark corner of the self.

Thermodyne · #2 November 13th, 2005, 11:54 AM

It�s more or less all the same person here. Main difference is that in the real world I can talk faster than I type, so I tend to say more.

General Woundwort · #3 November 13th, 2005, 12:29 PM

Do our actions in the various Cantinas and Bar & Grills count?

TurinTurambar · #4 November 13th, 2005, 02:32 PM

Aside from the mysterious cloaked figure with the evil sword that wanders in and out of the B&G occasionally, what you see is what you get.

kerensky · #5 November 13th, 2005, 03:04 PM

If Narf is really like himself on the outside world.....

TurinTurambar · #6 November 13th, 2005, 03:34 PM

...perish the thought!!

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 November 14th, 2005, 06:32 PM

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kerensky said:
If Narf is really like himself on the outside world.....

Not at all. 'Narf' is a comic persona I use for stress releif and cartoon humour.

Off-line, I tend towards monosylabism, stay in-doors for long periods of time, go for hours without saying a single thing, and have a dry wit quite different from cartoon antics. I tend to drift around rooms at social functions, generally staying close to the buffet, and am rather shy and introverted.

I can still set whole rooms laughing, however. Just not the same way. (The right remark at the right time, said with a straight face and just the right expression...)

Paladin_SE5 · #8 November 16th, 2005, 01:21 PM

Hehehe, I also wanted to know, and somehow I'm not surprised at all Narf, it feels just like you

As for me, well it's just me.
I like respectfull discussions and exchanges of ideas, but I'm also very carefull of my ironic side since I know first-hand it can degenerate very easily to misunderstandings in an online setting (thus, I use smileys a lot

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I can be very shy and delayed posting in this forum for years, yet when the dam breaks loose I never stop talking

(I single-handedly have 23.5% of the SE5 Beta testers forum, and at some point I peaked at 30%

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Renegade 13 · #9 November 14th, 2005, 04:45 PM

I guess that since I created the poll, I should also join the rest of you and post what I think!

The person I am online is essentially the same person I am if you were to talk to me in real life. However, there are a few differences. In real life I'm a little bit antisocial. Actually, I should rephrase that; I don't do well in large groups of people, especially people who I don't know. I tend to retreat into myself a little more than most people seem to.

Online I can express myself better than I do in real life, since I have time to actually think about and revise what I'm writing, whereas in real life you rarely have that opportunity!

In real life around my close friends and family I can be quite outgoing and talk a lot, somewhat like I can tend to do online once in a while.

Next I'll quote Starhawk, since what he said fits me rather well as well, and I'm too lazy to put it in my own words.

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I am NO good with women (they think I'm charming and sweet and blah blah blah but they tend to think of my like a brother or I don't pick up on their signals till it's too late and then I kick myself lol) so that ackward point of my personality chimes through on these forums too. Kicker there is I'm a very empathetic person by my nature so I fit the "sensative tough guy" quality quite well. But I'm not enough of an *** for teenage girls aparently lol all the ones I know tend to date "Bad boys"

I think online it can be a lot easier for your "real" personality to shine through, the person you might be if all social pressures were removed, and there was no pressure to conform to a certain mold. It's easier to say something that shows who you truely are when there aren't a load of people around to look at you funny when you do!

As some have seen in the few debates we get going around here once in a while (especially religion, politics, etc.) I have some fairly strong opinions when it comes to those. I also have no trouble articulating my point of view either, even if it flys in the face of what most people seem to think. For example, I'm anti-gun control and anti a whole bunch of things that are to me, morally "wrong". I won't list them, because that'll likely start a long and drawn out debate that we probably don't need at this time!

One final aspect of my personality; as you may have noticed from how disjointed the above paragraphs are from each other, I jump around a fair bit when I'm talking. Of course, this can cause a wee bit of confusion when talking to people when I'm talking about one thing then jump straight to another topic that people don't even think is related to the original subject

Whew, there's more I could type but you're probably all bored to tears already, so I'll stop here. Not to mention the fact that my fingers are getting tired.