Thread: Rules for Classifieds - discussion

Vadim -- How does it make sense? Perfect sense?! That's even worse.

It makes NO sense.

Let's think about this a bit. Who is this favoring? A scammer will obviously have a fake name with a fake location. This doesn't help the buyer. If anything, it makes scams EASIER because since the buyer puts in 'John Doe' 'Tampa,FL' into Google and finds out that he actually exists and maybe sponsors helping Kids with Cancer on his spare time, than that person will trust the scammer MORE than less. That's one of many reasons why real-name policy doesn't help our security policy here. It makes scams EASIER which goes against the entire reason why we are implementing these rules. This doesn't help honest sellers at all. This will not protect buyers/sellers against scams.

Also, most stuff you can find out about someone else via the intertubes is useless and/or inaccurate and/or not even helpful to whether or not you should buy something from them. So why include it at all? Again, a scammer will use a fake name and a fake location that matches up to some fictional made up person(who actually exists but isn't the scammer) which makes scams EASIER. A non-scammer will still include his/her real-name but google searches reveal absolutely nothing to the buyer that helps them make a better decision whether they should buy something from them.

This policy makes perfectly no sense.

-G

Oh gomba, I still don't want to disclose my real name to the whole world either. But the idea behind having the name makes perfect sense (so that you can try to research them, where you will have luck or not is not up to question).

Crim what do you think about removing the full name deal?

that's Michael Gomba to you..

in short:


Ben Fenner - columbia SC

1994 nissan Sentra pictures and images by Benjamin Fenner at HorsepowerFreaks

roughly 27 years old
wants to know if performing oral sex on yourself can transmit genital herpes
In a Relationship
Here for: Serious Relationships
Orientation: Straight
Hometown: N/A
Body type: Average
Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Religion: Atheist
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Smoke / Drink: No / No
Children: Someday
Education: In college
Occupation: Self Employed
Income: Less than $30,000


University Of South Carolina At Columbia
Columbia, SOUTH CAROLINA
Graduated: N/A
Major: Computer Science
Clubs: Mini Baja


used to deliver pizza as a job
dated a girl named eilean for 6 months
has brothers
was once homeless
uncle and aunt names steve and kathryn


was once in a long distance relationship while his girfriend katie went to "wellesley college"

install on the rear breaks once took 7 hrs

once sent an email to "JackinWorld" to find out if u can transmit stds from urself to urself
Can autofellatio transmit genital herpes? by Benjamin Fenner on Myspace

27 years old was in 2007.....so - 30 now
best buddy is dan martin
once lived by "Chad's Ice Cream"



the "conversation":

my girl friend: who's this dude that doesn't think i can find him on the inet?
myself: Ben Fenner - columbia SC
myself: go get him, oh he doesn't think you can't find anything, people are curious how much can be found with a name and location.
my girl friend: BEN FENner?
myself: ben fenner
my girl friend: benfen er?
my girl friend: oye
my girl friend: his ma was a pot head <-this is teasing, not real research[/COLOR]
my girl friend: city and state?
myself: ben fenner
myself: columbia
myself: South Carolina
my girl friend: BENFEN er
myself: hahahah
my girl friend: 1994 nissan Sentra pictures and images by Benjamin Fenner at HorsepowerFreaks
myself: hahaha
my girl friend: well?
myself: what did you search?
my girl friend: benjamin fenner
myself: find me some more
myself: give me INFO ABOUT BEN.. not just websites
my girl friend: roughly 27 years old
my girl friend: wants to know if performing oral sex on yourself can transmit genital herpes
my girl friend: In a Relationship
Here for: Serious Relationships
Orientation: Straight
Hometown: N/A
Body type: Average
Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Religion: Atheist
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Smoke / Drink: No / No
Children: Someday
Education: In college
Occupation: Self Employed
Income: Less than $30,000

my girl friend: boo yah
myself: oh shit where is he "here for serious relationships" ??
my girl friend: my space
myself: gimme more..
my girl friend: University Of South Carolina At Columbia
Columbia, SOUTH CAROLINA
Graduated: N/A
Major: Computer Science
Clubs: Mini Baja

my girl friend: used to deliver pizza as a job
my girl friend: dated a girl named eilean
my girl friend: for 6 months
my girl friend: has brothers
my girl friend: was once homeless
my girl friend: uncle and aunt names steve and kathryn
myself: moar!! lol
my girl friend: was once in a long distance relationship while his girfriend katie went to "wellesley college"
myself: MOAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my girl friend: install on the rear breaks once took 7 hrs
myself: so now where did you read that?
my girl friend: once sent an email to "JackinWorld" to find out if u can transmit stds from urself to urself
my girl friend: Can autofellatio transmit genital herpes? by Benjamin Fenner on Myspace
my girl friend: 27 years old was in 2007.....so
my girl friend: 30 now
my girl friend: best buddy is dan martin
my girl friend: how'd i do?
myself: splendid.. let me see what people say on the forum.. oh the cool thing is, you dont even know this is about a forum.. and didn't look on the forum for any info..
my girl friend: why am i doing this?
my girl friend: i wanna see
my girl friend: once lived by "Chad's Ice Cream"
myself: i will send you later the link
my girl friend: why am i doing this?
myself: i will send you a link!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my girl friend: omg ok

I think Ben became interested in AUTOfellatio precisely because it has the word 'AUTO' in it lol.

-G

vqman, I think you may have proven my point? It's not hard to find information about (some) people with their real name on the Internet. And it can be very credible if you're halfway decent at searching. I'm maybe not the best example though, as everything I've ever done online I try to make as public as possible. I make all my social network stuff as public as possible, I use the username "BenFenner" just about everywhere, etc.

When you go to pay someone using paypal and you enter their e-mail address it tells you their full name (before you pay them). It's going to be extremely easy to catch someone trying to use "John Doe" from CT when their paypal says it is "Scam Scammer".
I just tested it with Vadim.
That right there is worth its weight in gold IMO.


By the way, I found the answer to the pressing herpes question. They are not transmutable.
(Man, I have a lot of old info out there I need to update! Freakin' MySpace.)

so when you've agreed upon a purchase price, and you are sending money... you then get to find out there name. if they told you a different name prior... its too late, you've already made payment...

still seems uselesa to have your name on a for sale item...

maybe if you have less than 5 iTradee you have to put your name? i dunno, glad its all private now (the classifieds)

she couldnt get over your name..

BENFEN er..
benfen er
benfenner

girl was cracking me up...

See:

That edit might have happened after you read the post.




We were told it will be, but I haven't seen that happen yet.

I bet she was finding all this crap on this guy named Ben Fenner who does music. Apparently I have much too large of a web presence for him, so I've seen now he's going by "Ben Fen" online. I've taken his username for Wikipeida, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Photobucket, etc.

Lol. Must suck to be that guy.

Oh, if she wants to know how well she did I can point out where the info she found was wrong. Maybe in a PM or forum chat. We've gone way off topic.