Why should anyone care what other posts someone has made? I've been using 800Notes (Please read this carefully, and don't display -- as some have -- a complete disregard for truth or accuracy in an effort to find some tiny excuse to attack.) for a long time. I did not put it on the calendar, the first time I came to the site. In an earlier post, I conjectured it was about -- I think I used the term "round number" -- a decade. Because a few people didn't like the point I was making, they jumped on that and distorted it. Either their egos were hurt by my main point and it so disturbed their minds that they couldn't read the disclaimer words, or they were so unethical that they chose to ignore them or their limited reading skills prevented them from understanding what was there to be seen.
Either way, I don't think they made any effort to quibble with my main point. Maybe it was spot on, but they just didn't like it and had to go with ad hominem attack.
At the time, it was maybe 150 days (More than 5 days and less than 500) shy of 10 years since the site was first registered, and the owner weighed in, calling me a liar and all kinds of stuff. When, in round numbers, someone talks of ten years (I didn't. I said "decade," as in 80's or 2010s.) and misses a time window of about 3,652 days by somewhere around 5%, you've gotta be pretty vindictive and vicious to attack such a small error -- WHICH WAS NEVER, EVER, IN REAL WORLD ENGLISH an exact time frame, to begin with.
Well, in that same exchange, some blustering buffoon of a bully had been yammering about all of his "credentials." I pointed out that mine were similar ..... and that was offensive, for some reason. Instead of finding something common to agree upon, that one did the same thing as "So," in this thread. Went searching on the user name I had adopted that evening, as I responded to a particular post which offered some myth about "seniors," yada, yada. As a senior, I found it demeaning and said so. Called myself "Senior," to identify with the group.
I'm using that moniker again now, because it's pertinent to this topic. Somebody did a search and -- miraculously -- was unable to find any posts I had done using that name. Duh. I had never, in the previous eight or nine (close to, but not as many as, ten) years used that name. So, based on the stupid notion that I would never, ever, have made a single post using any other name ....... I was branded a liar. By a liar.
When I post something, it's because of a particular call I've gotten or, as in this thread which has nothing to do with a particular number, because of something I read which I feel like commenting about. I don't care if anyone knows who I am. Either it's good information (and, therefore, often attacked by the anti-truthers) or its an opinion, and someone is free to agree or disagree. I'm not looking to make a name for myself, to make myself feel good, or gain attention. (What a crock. Someone -- maybe the same idiot who didn't realize some of us are here a lot, but don't care for attention -- accused me of just trying to get attention. When they want to attack you, they don't even care if their arguments are internally consistent, or not.)
I guess the site running people have a way of tracking such things and made the choice not to share, but what I see on other sites is that some numbers are searched on many, many times and only get a few comments. I often search a number, find enough information to make a decision about a call from an unknown number, then go on without posting anything. In my personal view, more than two or three posts about how someone got a call, didn't answer, and has no clue about who called or why is just a waste of time, trying to sift through them to get to a post which actually identifies the caller or the nature of the call. However, even three or four of those otherwise useless posts are helpful in that they tell me it's a number which is calling a lot of people, and there's no urgent reason to call back.
So, yeah. I've been posting, and it's probably safe to assume this "regular" person has been posting for a long time, as well. I can't speak for anyone else, but I would personally have a hard time getting back to a post I might have done as recently as yesterday, without going back through my call log and looking up every number, until I came to one I posted something about. It's just not that important.
It really doesn't matter If I've posted information about 100 numbers this week, or ten numbers in the past nine years. The calls came in. I either knew something or I didn't. If I knew something, I posted it. If I found (As in this case.) something which demonstrates confusion or a silly attitude and had time, I commented .... and then I went to FCC and FTC and state AG sites to file complaints, if there were numbers which deserved to be reported. Maybe I wrote another letter to a lawmaker. Sometimes, I did the research to find out about a specific caller and, if there was a cause of action, I went down and filed a lawsuit. I didn't give a flip about whatever "name" came to mind at the time I made a post.
Why should I? What's it to you? Either you got a call from the same number and my post was helpful, or you never got a call from that number, and my comments are irrelevant and immaterial.
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