[QUOTE=ClarkKent;2461595]They didn't really come after me, and I don't know how they could, as I've never been found out as to my actual self from my posting identity on here. I've always said what's posted on here can't be proven, even though I say up front everything I say happened did happen, and no dreaming involved where I'm concerned. But there were a number of posters here several years ago that claimed to be in on the know regarding the vice units around town. They had friends that would pass along info and, in turn, they would pass it along here, whether in PM or on the forum. Now that very well could have been vice, themselves, I have no idea. But I remember when the cops got killed in Ensley around a dozen years ago, I was very vocal to my feelings about that. People I know, and myself included had been stopped and harassed around the mongering areas for no other reasons than riding down the street. It left a sour impression on my mind about cops, that last to this day. I'm just not as vocal as I was back then. Anyway, I was told that they regularly talked about the forum, and with me being the person locally with the highest number of posts, of which I still am to this day, they paid close attention to what I said, and in turn I was on their 'radar'.
Back when we were thinking most all new posters were LE, a bunch of us old time posters would watch how and what new ones would say, and discuss them in PMs. Ones we thought were cops, we would send a message in to the admin saying we thought they were LE, and they would be deleted. That's back when I believe we had another admin other than the one we have now, because there used to be a system where senior members with high posting numbers' opinions mattered. Not so much today. But I attribute that in my case to my vocal opinions about not allowing mugshots on here. As for the local LE suspicions, there's a few on here now that post quite often, some of which most people trust their opinions on here, of which I have stated in PMs to other long time posters that I think they're LE. Also, there have been several times we've caught posters in lies on here, one was a well known long-time poster. One of those times, this poster claimed he picked up a SW around old Kmart on Crestwood, and then posted a picture he claimed he took of her. It ended up being a random photo found through tin-eye search, of which I called him out on. He came back trying to say he made a mistake, blah blah, but we then noticed this other poster was logging in at the same time every day that the previous one was, yet only the one that hadn't been caught was actually posting. So that told us the other one was the same poster. He was turned in as well. I think all of this was mainly used to gain good graces with the real posters here, to ingratiate themselves into the trusted posters. On that same note, there's been people that would come on and talk about wanting to have a meet and greet somewhere, or a kind of tag along mongering venture. I used to get those kind of PMs a lot, but there were some who would post forum messages about it. That, to me, is a VERY bad idea. You have no idea who someone is on here. I've even told people don't trust anybody here in that respect, even me, because you have no idea who you're really talking to. Keep your identity private, and never reveal yourself. And by all means, don't go to some bar or restaurant to have a kumbaya mongering pow wow with others who post on here.[/QUOTE]I concur. Many years ago on a different forum long gone, we had meet and greets with the only ones invited were known by the providers. That was then, today there is no way I would attend one.
