New Blog / Multiple Postings

[Guest fountainhall]

I have put two topics under one heading because they have a number of common issues. I raise it because there is a new blog about gay Thailand and other gay Asian matters

[Bob]

There are two points I don’t quite understand, though. One is the use of different posting names.

 

While I haven't used any other name either, I do believe that most who have changed their name have done it to escape their prior posting history - or at least an attempt to do that. Psychologically, it's somewhat like moving to a different place expecting all your troubles will be left behind (but, lo and behold, the troubles seem to follow for some unexplained reason - actually, it's because they had many of their troubles because of how they interacted with people and new names don't often disguise their style and/or cantankerous moods for too long). There's at least one poster here who clearly posted under a different name on another board as the style and history are simply too similar to be different people (and I can understand the name change as I wouldn't want to be associated with the prior posting history either!).

 

I also completely fail to understand why anyone would wish to post exactly the same post on two or more Boards at virtually the same time.

 

While I almost never do that either (for me, it's just too boring to do it twice), I think there are some who do it innocently - either out of a true sense of service (e.g., getting some news out of a place or event) or because they think that each board has posters who never check out the other gay boards. And, yes, I'm sure that some do it because of mental reasons best left to a psychiatrist's couch.

 

A third area that I've found interesting or puzzling is the motivation for posting some information - and I'm referring to posts that give out quite a few personal details (the type of information I reserve for close friends) and/or which go into some explicit detail involving sexual behavior with their boyfriends (du jour and/or long-term) or whatever. I asked one generally-liked poster why he does it and he explained that he's always done that (kept diaries and written stories of his experiences) since he was in junior high. It's not that big a deal to me - everybody's free to post what they want - but I do occasionally wonder what psychological need is being fulfilled by the posting of some of the personal information. Maybe they're at times just seeking approval and I can see where that could even be healthy at times (somewhat like the notion of bouncing ideas off of friends). And, yea, other times it just seems strange and is probably fulfilling some psychological need that, again, maybe I don't want to know about.

[Guest]

Thanks for the link to the blog. I've just read the post on BKK Gogo Bars, which was a good read.

The idea that tips left in the wallet with the bill go to the house was news to me. I shall have to change the payment method.

 

As for usernames, I post under the handle of Jun on GBT & my profile over there even refers to my handle here.

Why? Well once upon a time there was a suggestion of all posts being transferred from one forum to another without seeking peoples consent. So I started with a new username on GBT. The original problem went away, but the new handle stayed. Ideally, I should adopt the new username here & on Ting Tong. The original one was rather a hurried effort.

 

I don't see a problem with people using different usernames on different forums, particularly if there's openness. The problem arises when they keep using both at the same time on the same forum.

[Guest anonone]

Thanks for the link to the blog. I've just read the post on BKK Gogo Bars, which was a good read.

The idea that tips left in the wallet with the bill go to the house was news to me. I shall have to change the payment method.

 

As for usernames, I post under the handle of Jun on GBT & my profile over there even refers to my handle here.

 

 

Another thanks for posting the link. I have taken a quick read and plan on further exploring when I have more time. Seems like a pretty good start there.

 

I also have not heard of the tips left in the wallet with the bill go to the house and not the waiter. Are we pretty sure this is true? It will not be a big deal to hand the waiter the tip, but seems rather awkward....no?

 

I post everyone once in a great while on SGT, but use the same username. Little too chaotic and catty over there, but a couple of the posters put out some good info. I really don't understand the multiple username thing. I have enough trouble keeping my sh*t together without having to remember who I am posting as that particular day lol

[Guest kjun12]

some posters have started to guess the identity of the site

[Guest fountainhall]

I didn't reach any conclusion. I was merely reporting what had been stated on another site. And it was that comment which provided the main reason for starting this thread. As I said -

 

"My point, though, is less about blogs than about those who, for whatever reason, post on a variety of different gay Thailand Boards using either the same or different names"

[TotallyOz]

Thanks for that Blog. It is excellent and I am glad to have found it.

 

As far as posting on boards with different names, I don't get it unless their name is already taken. For example, Michael was already taken on GB's board so I made it MichaelGT.

 

I don't post on any other gay Thailand boards.

 

Another thing I don't understand is why someone would want to use multiple handles on the same board. This is simply nuts IMHO.

[Guest HeyGay]

http://bangkokbois.w...ress.com/about/ - which I read about on in GB's site and opened it to have a look. One fact which caught my eye is that some posters have started to guess the identity of the site's owner, suggesting that it is almost certainly someone who regularly posts on a variety of gay Thailand sites under different names. There are two points I don't quite understand, though. One is the use of different posting names. Trolls excepted, what benefit does anyone get from regularly posting under different names? ?

 

 

I have heard quite a few guys say it is the writings of that Terrible wind up merchant "LMTU" but surly not he can hardly put a sentence together or is he a fake and does it so you have to read it few times to understand what he is really saying, no one can be that bad, can they!!!.

 

I write on all the top 4 gay forums and others, in different names, The best apart from here, really is that GBT forum where that autocratic owner, runs it as if his life depended on it and edits out anything up to a third of what is written, with his BARMY ARMY of Advisors convincing him to cut out anything fun or amusing, but at least like here you dont have to be bothered with flamers and flooders, they are all banned then run hide down on the other 2 sites Insulting and attacking any one that gets in there way, living like the Pirates in the Caribbean, there on a Ghost ship of fools.

 

I now also have leant to write in different styles, so as to throw the Flooding flamers off track or they will just make it Impossible to continue with any Interesting Posts, as they are so selfish all they want is for you to read is their diatribe and very rarely bring anything New or Interesting to the boards, if they do its copied from other sites, the funny thing is they now answer my posts very nicely and have no idea who they are really chatting about, its good fun to change your name if you change your style also. If you have half a Brain you can do it, as to write badly it is not easy to start with if in reality you have been well edumarcated, even though I have been writing on the B.S Forum since it started with a few teething problems from HEDDA but who hasn't, so my new style is old there, but they would be amazed if they really new who I was its fun writing of forums, even though you do forget its goes all round the world and not only seen in Thailand.

[Guest kjun12]

I didn't reach any conclusion.

You did reach a conclusion. You said: "One fact which caught my eye is that some posters have started to guess the identity of the site’s owner, suggesting that it is almost certainly someone who regularly posts on a variety of gay Thailand sites under different names." This is copied directly from your original post.

 

Perhaps the problem is my reading of what you wrote or your writing of what I read.

[Bob]

I now also have leant to write in different styles................. as to write badly it is not easy to start with if in reality you have been well edumarcated.......

 

Interesting and a bit amusing. It's more difficult for one to conceal one's style than one thinks.

 

While I'm not concious of having any particular writing style, I'd be foolish to not believe that how I write (and think, I suppose) hasn't been affected by writing formal documents for a few decades. At least....thank god....I never have been an afficianado of the "hereinbefores", "hereinafters", or those that attempt to "brain up" a passage by tossing in a latin word here and there. Admittedly, I don't worry about spellings or grammatical errors when writing on the boards and my lack of proofreading after the fact too often evidences that fact.

[Guest fountainhall]

You did reach a conclusion. You said: "One fact which caught my eye is that some posters have started to guess the identity of the site

[Guest kjun12]

As I was writing it, I was making an observation not reaching a conclusion, in that the suggestion is not my suggestion but that of those posters trying to guess the identity of the site's owner. But I'm not going to quibble about it.

Come on Fountainhall. I'm just trying to have a little fun with you. Don't be so serious.

[Guest fountainhall]

Ah, but as Peter Ustinov once said: "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

[Guest anonone]

Thanks for the link to the blog. I've just read the post on BKK Gogo Bars, which was a good read.

The idea that tips left in the wallet with the bill go to the house was news to me. I shall have to change the payment method.

 

 

As an update to this, I have just returned from a visit to the Pattaya area. I am kicking myself for not remembering which bar I saw it in, but there was a notice in a bill wallet that stated exactly the above. Tips in the wallet get split by the staff (i think that is what it said....not kept by the house), tips handed to the staff member remain theirs to keep.

 

I don't know how prevalent this practice exists, but interesting that at least one place was putting out the notice.

[Guest fountainhall]

there was a notice in a bill wallet . . . Tips in the wallet get split by the staff (i think that is what it said....not kept by the house), tips handed to the staff member remain theirs to keep.

Excellent idea! I have never seen that anywhere. Only the practice in some restaurants which I consider quite disgraceful: "We have deducted 12.5% as a voluntary service charge!" Voluntary?? And when I see that, I don't recall ever also seeing: "This goes to the service staff."

[Guest fountainhall]

there is a new blog about gay Thailand and other gay Asian matters

[Guest GaySacGuy]

I am one who changed my handle when GB opened his new board....The reason being that I am no longer a GaySacGuy. When I joined this board in 2006 I was living in Sacramento, CA. However, in 2007 I moved to Pattaya, and then onto Ubon in 2008. Therefore, I thought with a new board, I would try a new handle...and chose LKAsians. It more or less means that I like Asians..which is very true.