Talk:3128: Thread Meeting
Can't believe this still hasn't been explained, it's been a whole 163731 minutes since this released. How am I supposed to enjoy it now? 2a01:5a8:479:b635:b4cd:4b3e:238a:dfc (talk) 16:08, 13 August 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Oh, hey 2a01:5a8:479:b635:b4cd:4b3e:238a:dfc, I know you!
- Honestly I didn't realise you existed outside the Alien Vs. Predator Slash Fiction fandom. I haven't seen you since you described an even more squicky use of the plasmacaster than usual. 82.132.187.138 16:40, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- omg hiii 82.132.187.138! I think we've met in some forum where we pitted our web series together. I'm so proud of the Xronology (my series) for coming out on top, but your "Bottom Simulator 1993" wasn't too bad either! Caliban (talk) 16:44, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
This is the earliest I remember a comic being released in a looong time stevethenoob 19:31, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
One solution to this is to set up a personal website and link to it in your bio, while linking to all of your accounts from there. This way, people can discover your other interests via that personal website. —megan talk contribs 17:24, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- Given that I never use any (exactly-the-)same username twice, anywhere, this sounds like the absolutely last thing that I'd do. (I'm happy that you don't know whether I'm any (or all!) of @jimmy_wales, @realdonaldtrump, @KensingtonRoyal, @zuck, @FoxNews, @jairmessiasbolsonaro, @randallmonroe or anyone...)
- In fact, I haven't got a 'bio' anywhere, except my CV/Resumé (which only lists my real-name email address that I don't use for anything but that) and what little I can get away with on any corporate system. 92.23.2.228 20:20, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- That's a good way to do it. What's linked can never be fully un-linked on the internet! Fabian42 (talk) 20:35, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- It helps that I got any possible internet self-promotion out of my system well before there was any 'social media' (and mostly before there was even 'the web') when it was all a far more pseudonimous text-only environment.
- What doesn't help is that I also rejected things like LinkedIn as 'fads', like MySpace or Facebook (it'll never catch on!), to possibly tangible professional detriment. But I've muddled along. ;) (And it might even have helped not to have any embarassing skeletons in my closet, in anything easily googlable.)
- But, hey let millenials be millenials and Zs be Zs, as well as the Gen Xs/Boomers that didn't come in well past the Eternal September. I'm sure they also mostly muddle through. 92.23.2.228 21:50, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- I have an interlinked network of main accounts with similar usernames. For some platforms I have alts, and for some platforms (like this one) I have no main account and only a different username. This stops issues with employers looking up my stuff if I use different writing styles on different accounts—not particularly difficult to do.
- Also, did the wiki admins finally figure out how to do X-Forwarded-For? —megan talk contribs 08:10, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
- That's a good way to do it. What's linked can never be fully un-linked on the internet! Fabian42 (talk) 20:35, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
I call these "internet loops"! Could also be someone randomly knowing someone else I also know or other roundabout way to rediscover someone. It happened a bunch of time with a specific Minecraft content creator's community for me, where someone found my comment on an Avatar fan video, I spotted someone else on a maths video with very few views, other people there liked the same music and someone joined a Pokémon-themed Discord who has one of the Minecraft community members as shared friend. And some people there already knew an Undertale creation of the owner. Fabian42 (talk) 20:35, 13 August 2025 (UTC) I have never understood the "seeing your teacher in a store is weird" thing. My daughter behaves that way, but she behaves in such a clichéed "Like...oh my god, that's just so totally...like...you know?" teenage way about everything that I have no belief in its genuinely being a problem. I saw teachers out of school, when I was a kid. It wasn't odd. It was just seeing people I knew in the town where we both lived. Yorkshire Pudding (talk) 20:24, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
