Why Do People Pretend To Comment As Someone Else?

So far, no one has impersonated me.. is that a bad thing?

When you're famous that is what people do. Think of all the celebrities that have millions of webpages that says "this is the official webpage" or how the "Enquirer" just do whatever and use whatever pictures and act like its the celebrity. People just do things to cause drama and everyone loves drama and they'll just sit back and wait to see what kind of reactions it will stir up.

I wouldnt like to see also some bad comments with my name.

That's unbehaviour and very bad thing to do. It's kind of give mess to other people and that kind of person has a bad and rotten heart.

There are many haters like the Tyler dude, but that´s a wanker. I just did for kicks and giggles. No harm no foul.

Actually, I'm going to start a experiment and start "borrowing" popular nicks, since it's a nice way to get some quick traffic!

Just imagine my face when I saw a post article regarding this subject when I was culprit.

Just register "John Chow" at a regular forum with his avatar, say something controversial and watch the traffic pouring in. No kidding.

Don't be a troll, try to emulate is writting (which is rather easy) and his bragging personality (no offense!) and many people will buy it and think you're the real deal.

That's one of the downsides of being popular..

Seriously enough, I bet JC got quite attention (and revenue!) from my little joke. Several bloggers are talking about this right now.

Go me!

I should have noticed after all the bad things it appeared tyler was saying

I even quoted him and told him to relax / get a life or something like that :wink:

There is a loser on TechCrucnh and Marketing Pilgrim who pretends to be Mark Zuckerburg whenever there is a Facebook related story. People with sad lives.

what a loser...

People simply do not have lives of their own, so they have to live vicariously through the lives of others. Kinda sad really, when they could use that time to make some money.

You gonna let him talk about your mama like that? Them's fighting words! :D

The same exact thing happened to me awhile back, I made a rant post about it as well. The nerve of some people, I will never understand why

Thats a pretty low blow, but in reality when you're the tops of your particular field that is bound to happen. I don't think your blog will suffer that much. Perhaps you can find some evil way to capitalize on this?

See, now this is kind of funny.

lol

The simple answer is: there are flakes everywhere. So you can assume that a few people will do these types of things. It never surprises me. It's to be expected. :twisted:

It's pretty low and I had always wondered if people actually did it. I think it could potentially ruin a blogger's reputation, and in many cases nobody would know the difference. I wonder what the story is and why someone was posting as him.

People who pretend to be others are just plain nuts or they simply have low self-esteem. Poor souls... :lol:

who cares?

This hasn't been an issue for me YET, but I know Casey Serin at Iamfacingforeclosure.com has had real problems with this, both personally, and then for certain commenters. I thought it was bizarre then and still find it weird. What kind of sorry life does a person have to have to pretend to be someone else in order to be nasty? Have some balls and say it yourself, but then, I am a redhead…
Catherine, the redhead

I'm glad this came up because I did think "Tyler's" comments were unusual the other day. I don't understand the things people do and why they do them. It's like when someone sabotages another persons Adsense account by click bombing... it's just childish.

People who do that to their competition are lame. The amount of time wasted doing that could be spent actually make a better site/business.

That's messed up. :razz:

Because they are jealous. hatred + jealousy will compel just about anyone to do stupid things.

I also find it quite funny when the same person is changing their name on a site regularly. Never mind that their IP and email address are the same as many 'different' people who have commented before them. I don't quite understand it, maybe it's their alter ego.

well they went through some trouble because tyler is getting a free link on the top comment list, and since you addressed the topic, more exposure

Sounds like the plan is backfiring. Someone pretend to be me and get some free links to me. Thanks

I smell a rat. I'm thinking that I wish I'd put horrid comments on your blog in my own name, then emailed you to say it was someone else so you'd link to me too.

Lack of maturity is what drives people to do it. There can be no other motive that I can think of. I don't know if it is wide spread but on a lot of forums I've participated in it has been an issue with people selecting user names that are just one or two characters off from the original.

I did it once on here (posing as you) when you first added the avatar images. I did it solely to test if they were email based.

That is really lame, trying to ruin another persons reputation by pretending to be them.

Jealousy and Envy no doubt.

I've only heard of this happening a few times.. I think it's really sad that people get so jealous that they have to ruin the reps of others.

I saw those comments using your name. Kind of freaky to think they can make them.

Some people will always take pot shots at anyone more successful than they are. Not sure if it's a jealousy thing or what but it's true.

This has been an issue in forums and things of that nature for a long time, it's no surprise it's started happening more and more with blogs and comments. I still don't like registration to comment though, it drives a lot of people away in my experience.

I can see as an attention getter... someone wants attention and this is one way that others will give it.

I had that problem in high school.

I can't believe people still do this sort of thing.

Boo boo...cry me a river.

That's ezactly why 'spoiled kids' do this. Before theu know it annoys besides, even though you try to convince everyone else otherwise.

I did spoofed JC's at JCOW's blog, because I was curious to see people's reactions.

I'm not jealous, spoiled brat or anythign in between. If i really wanted to piss off JC, he would get a crap load of gay porn subscriptions at his inbox. :p

And by doing this kind of posts, you are just proving the trolls that their childish behaviour pays off.

Why is it that I immediately thought of Kumiko when I saw the title of this post?

This is what happens when spoiled kids are allowed to use the internet before they stop wetting the bed.

Very disrespectful and uncalled for...

Sorry to here someone did that Tyler!!

I run a very popular forum on stock market. In the beginning we allowed everyone to post without registering first. Big mistake: the human being can be as low as you can imagine behind a computer monitor, and then lower.

Some people feel protected by the anonymity of the net and go doing and writing things they would never do or say in person.

Cowards, that's what they are.

That´s one of life´s misteries.