We’ve always noticed something odd with user @Skipper1402@lemmygrad.ml, but we haven’t formalized any space for discussion about them.
People have noticed they are apparently collecting info about us and our community. Have you interacted with this user? What do you think about it?
FWIW, I didn’t think there was anything nefarious going on. The whole site can be trivially downloaded, if someone wants to collect info, and the questions weren’t especially probing.
Hello everyone, I am here to disclose that skipper1402 is an alt account made so that I can separate my regular posts from shower thoughts and other silly questions that are on my mind lately. I will also reply to this post with the account, confirming the ownership of the skipper alt account that was active on asklemmygrad. thank you for understanding.
I tend to ignore their questions because they’re generic and uninteresting. They also often feel like they’re framed to extract something while contributing no engagement themselves, which makes me somewhat distrustful of their motive.
Personally, I like engaging in discussions where someone has genuine interest and passion about about the subject. That just doesn’t exist with this user. Why ask a question and have no meaningful interaction with the response? That just doesn’t comport with typical human interaction in my experience; it feels more like filling out some kind of personality test (sidenote: always refuse to do those, esp of employers. You can sell your labour, but your mind and privacy are your own). If they are making some use of the feedback, it’s not demonstrated here.
At the most benign, maybe this user is just doing a poor job of starting conversations.
At the most malicious / tinfoil, they could be looking for specific opinions which may have been expressed on other social media and matching responses and speech patterns to potentially known real identities.
Can we unpin this now, please? No reason to continue dragging it out.
I’ve avoided their question posts, because they look silly, boring and too personal. Sometimes they look like they are trying to generate reactions (like the Gonzalo boiling babies question). I don’t know if they are collecting info or not. My guess was that they were just being weird or they were a bot posting things from a list.