So there's weirdness and drama afoot in science twitter. I really feel for people, this kind of shit is hurtful.https://twitter.com/IsabelOtt/status/1290007767109865475 …
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But also as a veteran of LiveJournal of a Certain Age, I look at the people saying the fake account went on for years and that maybe means it wasn't fake or that was really weird and justpic.twitter.com/a8OvG8CCry
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Let me introduce y'all to MsScribe: https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Ms.Scribe_Story:_An_Unauthorized_Fandom_Biography …
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Mostly what twitter has done is make it harder to spot this shit because you can't easily compare IP addresses anymore. I mean also VPNs etc are easily available now.
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But look if LiveJournal taught us anything it was that people will indeed run sock puppets for years on end.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
This is what I was saying to folks. Some people were questioning who had the time. Well, LJ goes to show many people do.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Especially these days when you can do it all from your phone! You can just whip off a post whenever, no longer tethered to your computer
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