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K, guys. Here I go again (after deleting this thread once and deciding to restart it). My New Year’s resolution is basically to “cut the crap.” So I’m
going to start right now that it's officially the New Year. I’m going to cut the crap here and basically reveal the “mystery” behind thedebutante and hopefully answer most of your PMs.
First, I should start by introducing myself and telling you guys why I came to this forum in the first place. I decided to do a little research project for a
psychology seminar by joining a few forums, pissing a few people off, confusing them, “un-pissing” them off, and then leaving the forum to do the write up on my project. The goal was to focus on people’s reactions and such. I’m not supposed to reveal the exact nature of the experiment especially because I decided to use the results from another forum in my paper and not the results from this forum.
Basically, the goal was to choose one other forum member from each forum (at least one same sex member) and hit on him/her. Then I was supposed to record the reaction and responses of that forum member as well as
that of the other forum members. Clearly I chose to hit on the Mouse from this forum. But I didn’t end up using the data from this forum because first of all, I feel like I was treated way too nicely by a lot of you because it’s just the Armenian thing to do. Second, the target, the Mouse, was not a complete stranger to me. He’s actually a really good friend of mine and was
aware of what I was doing and even played along quite a few times. Basically the results from another forum were way more interesting to me because the “target” was not only a complete stranger, but was also of my
same gender and was confused about my gender. Also, the forum had nothing to do with Armenians and had minimal moderation. So you could imagine that all of that made things more interesting. Also, I didn’t have
anyone to help me out.
Now that the project is in and I had my fun, I decided to start this thread and answer some of your questions while starting to think about my New Year’s resolution. Basically, it was a pleasure to meet all of you at this year’s forum meeting. I wish more people could have showed up. Yes, I was Mouse’s “lady friend,” the so-called Lurker at the meeting. I’m currently a sophomore at Stanford University trying to figure out what to do with my life. Anyway, I hope this clears some things up. I will still make occasional posts on this forum only because I feel so at home.
K, feel free to post your own New Year’s resolutions.
BTW, there is still one untruth in this post. But trust me, it’s very minor. I said I’m cutting the crap, but to learn to do that completely will require
all of next year.
Best,
deb
p.s. My apologies to any forumer who lost their posts because of my initial deletion of this thread.
going to start right now that it's officially the New Year. I’m going to cut the crap here and basically reveal the “mystery” behind thedebutante and hopefully answer most of your PMs.
First, I should start by introducing myself and telling you guys why I came to this forum in the first place. I decided to do a little research project for a
psychology seminar by joining a few forums, pissing a few people off, confusing them, “un-pissing” them off, and then leaving the forum to do the write up on my project. The goal was to focus on people’s reactions and such. I’m not supposed to reveal the exact nature of the experiment especially because I decided to use the results from another forum in my paper and not the results from this forum.
Basically, the goal was to choose one other forum member from each forum (at least one same sex member) and hit on him/her. Then I was supposed to record the reaction and responses of that forum member as well as
that of the other forum members. Clearly I chose to hit on the Mouse from this forum. But I didn’t end up using the data from this forum because first of all, I feel like I was treated way too nicely by a lot of you because it’s just the Armenian thing to do. Second, the target, the Mouse, was not a complete stranger to me. He’s actually a really good friend of mine and was
aware of what I was doing and even played along quite a few times. Basically the results from another forum were way more interesting to me because the “target” was not only a complete stranger, but was also of my
same gender and was confused about my gender. Also, the forum had nothing to do with Armenians and had minimal moderation. So you could imagine that all of that made things more interesting. Also, I didn’t have
anyone to help me out.
Now that the project is in and I had my fun, I decided to start this thread and answer some of your questions while starting to think about my New Year’s resolution. Basically, it was a pleasure to meet all of you at this year’s forum meeting. I wish more people could have showed up. Yes, I was Mouse’s “lady friend,” the so-called Lurker at the meeting. I’m currently a sophomore at Stanford University trying to figure out what to do with my life. Anyway, I hope this clears some things up. I will still make occasional posts on this forum only because I feel so at home.
K, feel free to post your own New Year’s resolutions.
BTW, there is still one untruth in this post. But trust me, it’s very minor. I said I’m cutting the crap, but to learn to do that completely will require
all of next year.
Best,
deb
p.s. My apologies to any forumer who lost their posts because of my initial deletion of this thread.