you knotties are nofun

lacqueredlover · May 2015

I'm a blogger that's had a decent amount of success and been published elsewhere under my actual name so it's easy to find me. But my Instagram and Twitter and Website are all public so it's no surprise. I also have a fairly uncommon last name so you'd have to dig deep to find someone that isn't me.

[Deleted User] · May 2015

My full name pulls up a film director, an artist, and a doctor before I find my Linked In page and a really old twitter I don't use anymore. Probably should delete that.

Googling what my married name will be, comes up with no results if I do the exact spelling. Some results come up if they spell Alison with two L's

ashley8918 · May 2015

Oh no, they're back!

flantastic · May 2015

photokitty said:

FiancB said:
My username comes back with wedding stuff and a few of my posts. My maiden name was another word for street, so I was un-googleable as a search result mostly came back with car accidents and arrests that happened on streets with my same name. Now I have a fairly unique first name and quite rare last name, so I need to watch it a bit more. It comes back with stuff that's actually me- my pixoto, my flickr, deviantart, youtube, wedding website. I'm pretty sure I'm actually the only person on earth with my name.

There's lots of ways to find someone. I should probably be more careful- I've linked pics from facebook because I'm lazy. If someone REALLY wants your info, they will find it- there's been cases of revenge porn being hacked into from people's hard drives, not even stuff they ever posted or sent to anyone. But having it for a username and rehashing its details on a first post on a forum is just plain dumb. That's all people were trying to point out- yes, because it's happened before.

The mods generally do a great job and I really like the light-handed modding on this forum, which is a breath of fresh air compared to many others. But people are going to be a bit sensitive to seemingly out-of-place warnings and ask about it. Now we know it was a mistake, cool. No one questioned when a few months back a reg got banned for doxxing (I forget who it was, I do have her avatar pictured in my head though) because that was definitely justified.
Thank you, we try our best to be fair and let the community be organic. Despite the title of this tread - we are fun

That said, the warnings were not a mistake and were not out-of-place. Being put in "jail" was a mistake - it's a new feature of the software, the wrong button was clicked and it was fixed.

Users posted personal information found on the internet in this thread, which is against TOS. It is never OK to google someone and post information or images you find on TK. We are all adults, the fact that this needs to be pointed out disappoints me. That is why I made my offer to find and post people's info - I was making a point.

If someone doesn't practice smart internet safety that does not mean others are allowed to repost their personal info on The Knot, it is against the rules of this community and just plain shitty.

You don't have to like everyone on here, but you do have to follow the rules - and not posting someone else's intellectual property should be a no brainer.

Re: the bolded - that is not what I did. I had no content in my reply which was not also found in OP's post (i.e. her username). All I did is point out, via a link, when she asked, that said username could be Googled. I'm okay with it being a warning if we really don't want to make a poster's personal information more obvious to others in any way (i.e. if it really didn't occur to a creepy lurker that her username could be Googled and I made it obvious), but practically, that gets ridiculous.

redoryx · May 2015

lacqueredlover said:
I'm a blogger that's had a decent amount of success and been published elsewhere under my actual name so it's easy to find me. But my Instagram and Twitter and Website are all public so it's no surprise. I also have a fairly uncommon last name so you'd have to dig deep to find someone that isn't me.

All of the above applies to me as well.

I actually have two Google searches -- one with my middle initial, one without. I use my middle initial professionally and it brings up a different set of results like scholarly books and articles.

[Deleted User] · May 2015

KatieinBkln · May 2015

pinkrevenge said:
I would have never ever thought of Google if it hadn't been pointed out to me that it's a search engine at my disposal!

_ seriously?

I'm an Ask Jeeves kind of girl, myself.

VulgarGirl · May 2015

VulgarGirl · May 2015

KatieinBkln said:

pinkrevenge said:
I would have never ever thought of Google if it hadn't been pointed out to me that it's a search engine at my disposal!

_ seriously?
I'm an Ask Jeeves kind of girl, myself.

Does NO ONE use Altavista?

littlepep · May 2015

jenna8984 said:

MagicInk said:
I AM SO SAD THAT I AM CALLED NO FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM NO FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SADS!!!!!

I FEEL ATTACKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM TOO SAD TO PAGE A MOD FOR THIS PERSONAL ATTACK! I HAVE BEEN ATTACKED PERSONALLY!

SHE INHIBITING MY ENJOYMENT BY SAYING I AM NOT FUN!!!!!!
I personally believe you are the Gateway to Fun!!!

I thought alcohol was the gateway to fun? Or was that gateway to drunkeness? I forget...

littlepep · May 2015

Well, I go on a work trip and miss all the fun. I googled my user name and apparently I am a horse.

CLEARLY the google is wrong because as you tell by my avatar I am a cat.

(The real me)

ETF picture

PrettyGirlLost · May 2015

photokitty said:

FiancB said:
My username comes back with wedding stuff and a few of my posts. My maiden name was another word for street, so I was un-googleable as a search result mostly came back with car accidents and arrests that happened on streets with my same name. Now I have a fairly unique first name and quite rare last name, so I need to watch it a bit more. It comes back with stuff that's actually me- my pixoto, my flickr, deviantart, youtube, wedding website. I'm pretty sure I'm actually the only person on earth with my name.

There's lots of ways to find someone. I should probably be more careful- I've linked pics from facebook because I'm lazy. If someone REALLY wants your info, they will find it- there's been cases of revenge porn being hacked into from people's hard drives, not even stuff they ever posted or sent to anyone. But having it for a username and rehashing its details on a first post on a forum is just plain dumb. That's all people were trying to point out- yes, because it's happened before.

The mods generally do a great job and I really like the light-handed modding on this forum, which is a breath of fresh air compared to many others. But people are going to be a bit sensitive to seemingly out-of-place warnings and ask about it. Now we know it was a mistake, cool. No one questioned when a few months back a reg got banned for doxxing (I forget who it was, I do have her avatar pictured in my head though) because that was definitely justified.
Thank you, we try our best to be fair and let the community be organic. Despite the title of this tread - we are fun

That said, the warnings were not a mistake and were not out-of-place. Being put in "jail" was a mistake - it's a new feature of the software, the wrong button was clicked and it was fixed.

Users posted personal information found on the internet in this thread, which is against TOS. It is never OK to google someone and post information or images you find on TK. We are all adults, the fact that this needs to be pointed out disappoints me. That is why I made my offer to find and post people's info - I was making a point.

If someone doesn't practice smart internet safety that does not mean others are allowed to repost their personal info on The Knot, it is against the rules of this community and just plain shitty.

You don't have to like everyone on here, but you do have to follow the rules - and not posting someone else's intellectual property should be a no brainer.

If this is what happened, this is really, really, really shitty.

Come on gals. Let's please not do this shit. Please!

arrippa · May 2015

MagicInk said:

KatieinBkln said:

pinkrevenge said:
I would have never ever thought of Google if it hadn't been pointed out to me that it's a search engine at my disposal!

_ seriously?
I'm an Ask Jeeves kind of girl, myself.
Does NO ONE use Altavista?

I use AOL

a/s/l

thespeshulestsnowflake · May 2015

I get a lot of results when I look up my username.

This is the cutest one:

southernbelle0915 · May 2015

ShesSoCold said:
If other mods are getting stoned and not calling me, I'mma be pissed.

I also did not get called. Thanks, guys!

Also, according to google, this is me... **shuffles off to think of a new screen name**

VulgarGirl · May 2015

@littlepep you were a horse in a the world championship finals. I mean...that means you were probably a champion in like your whole country.

(note: I have no idea how horse competitions work)

littlepep · May 2015

MagicInk said:
@littlepep you were a horse in a the world championship finals. I mean...that means you were probably a champion in like your whole country.

(note: I have no idea how horse competitions work)

AWE YEAH.

ohannabelle · May 2015

I'm frikking terrifying.

southernbelle0915 · May 2015

@ohannabelle - I cannot unsee that. Oh my god.

Even my unborn child is scared.

ohannabelle · May 2015

I will never see this movie.

FiancB · May 2015

Little and Pep are both names that are common in cutting horses and reiners. Lots of very good horses go back to Peppy San Badger (his nickname is Little Peppy, lifetime earnings of $170k) and Smart Little Lena (total earned by self and progeny is close to a million. So if you were a horse and that was your name, you'd probably be worth a lot of money! (like $30k+ probably if famous horses are parents vs great great great grandparents). The big competition for that is the National Cutting Horse Association championships and it is a big deal. So yeah, very fancy! I actually assumed that was what your name was from and you must have horses, haha.

Cutters get money. I have a western pleasure so I get ribbons. Comparably good bloodlines, but she is worth $5k by comparison. lol.

PrettyGirlLost · May 2015

FiancB said:
Little and Pep are both names that are common in cutting horses and reiners. Lots of very good horses go back to Peppy San Badger (his nickname is Little Peppy, lifetime earnings of $170k) and Smart Little Lena (total earned by self and progeny is close to a million. So if you were a horse and that was your name, you'd probably be worth a lot of money! (like $30k+ probably if famous horses are parents vs great great great grandparents). The big competition for that is the National Cutting Horse Association championships and it is a big deal. So yeah, very fancy! I actually assumed that was what your name was from and you must have horses, haha.

Cutters get money. I have a western pleasure so I get ribbons. Comparably good bloodlines, but she is worth $5k by comparison. lol.

Oh you don't ever win money? The ppl who ride western pleasure at my barn to the Quarter Horse national shows and some of the other big ones and they have won money prizes before.

FiancB · May 2015

Yeah, but compared to other events like cutting and barrel racing, it's not very common.

One of the biggest purses is $100k at a futurity at the Quarter Horse Congress. It doesn't really begin to cover the costs of getting a horse to that point. People can actually make money if they're good at barrel racing, with pleasure if you're lucky you might recoup some costs but not all. Incentive fund kicks some money back but not a whole lot. I picked the wrong damn discipline.

PrettyGirlLost · May 2015

FiancB said:
Yeah, but compared to other events like cutting and barrel racing, it's not very common.

One of the biggest purses is $100k at a futurity at the Quarter Horse Congress. It doesn't really begin to cover the costs of getting a horse to that point. People can actually make money if they're good at barrel racing, with pleasure if you're lucky you might recoup some costs but not all. Incentive fund kicks some money back but not a whole lot. I picked the wrong damn discipline.

Nah! As long as you have fun, who cares, right?

I think all the money is what ruins the horses and these disciplines, personally. It makes it hard for people who aren't wealthy to participate on an even playing field. And then people go nuts and overbreed/inbreed these horses if they start to win big- bad idea to limit genetic diversity.

Impressive, anyone?

Cookie Pusher · May 2015

So I Googled myself and... wow, there are a ton of people with my name. Not a single picture of me comes up in the image search, and the only stuff that comes up in first like 20 pages of the web search are people who are not me. Even if you add my state, there are at least a handful of people with my name. Then there's like eleventy billion teenage girls in Asia with my name.

My unusual name feels way less unusual.

southernbelle0915 · May 2015

Cookie Pusher said:
So I Googled myself and... wow, there are a ton of people with my name. Not a single picture of me comes up in the image search, and the only stuff that comes up in first like 20 pages of the web search are people who are not me. Even if you add my state, there are at least a handful of people with my name. Then there's like eleventy billion teenage girls in Asia with my name.

My unusual name feels way less unusual.

Sorry, but this is what I got when I googled you:

tcnoble · May 2015

PrettyGirlLost said:

FiancB said:
Yeah, but compared to other events like cutting and barrel racing, it's not very common.

One of the biggest purses is $100k at a futurity at the Quarter Horse Congress. It doesn't really begin to cover the costs of getting a horse to that point. People can actually make money if they're good at barrel racing, with pleasure if you're lucky you might recoup some costs but not all. Incentive fund kicks some money back but not a whole lot. I picked the wrong damn discipline.
Nah! As long as you have fun, who cares, right?

I think all the money is what ruins the horses and these disciplines, personally. It makes it hard for people who aren't wealthy to participate on an even playing field. And then people go nuts and overbreed/inbreed these horses if they start to win big- bad idea to limit genetic diversity.

Impressive, anyone?

That's why the jumper divisions at USEF have become insanely huge and popular. It doesn't matter if your horse is the best bred, worth the most, whatever... if he jumps quick and clear, you can win. Hunter and eq divisions are becoming painfully small at some shows because it's all politics and who has the more expensive horse. Sad.

esstee33 · May 2015

There are so many people with my first and last name combo that even when I search by by hometown + state, there are about a bazillion results that aren't me. Even if I add my middle initial, they're still not me! There's a very famous (or, at least, very news-worthy) person who is associated with a very famous organization with ties to my hometown who shares my name, so basically every picture is of her, haha.

If I change my name to FI's last, I'd be one of four in the country, I think.

PrettyGirlLost · May 2015

tcnoble said:

PrettyGirlLost said:

FiancB said:
Yeah, but compared to other events like cutting and barrel racing, it's not very common.

One of the biggest purses is $100k at a futurity at the Quarter Horse Congress. It doesn't really begin to cover the costs of getting a horse to that point. People can actually make money if they're good at barrel racing, with pleasure if you're lucky you might recoup some costs but not all. Incentive fund kicks some money back but not a whole lot. I picked the wrong damn discipline.
Nah! As long as you have fun, who cares, right?

I think all the money is what ruins the horses and these disciplines, personally. It makes it hard for people who aren't wealthy to participate on an even playing field. And then people go nuts and overbreed/inbreed these horses if they start to win big- bad idea to limit genetic diversity.

Impressive, anyone?

That's why the jumper divisions at USEF have become insanely huge and popular. It doesn't matter if your horse is the best bred, worth the most, whatever... if he jumps quick and clear, you can win. Hunter and eq divisions are becoming painfully small at some shows because it's all politics and who has the more expensive horse. Sad.

Because those are divisions within a quarter horse breed show, right?

I'm not a quarter horse person- nice horses, but not the breed for me and not interested in the shows for the reasons you stated. I'm more into the true English hunter/jumper shows. But my horse is not really the right horse for those so I just have fun training and riding at home.

I don't have the money to compete in the true hunter/jumper world, either! Those horses are also $$$$$$$

littlepep · May 2015

FiancB said:
Little and Pep are both names that are common in cutting horses and reiners. Lots of very good horses go back to Peppy San Badger (his nickname is Little Peppy, lifetime earnings of $170k) and Smart Little Lena (total earned by self and progeny is close to a million. So if you were a horse and that was your name, you'd probably be worth a lot of money! (like $30k+ probably if famous horses are parents vs great great great grandparents). The big competition for that is the National Cutting Horse Association championships and it is a big deal. So yeah, very fancy! I actually assumed that was what your name was from and you must have horses, haha.

Cutters get money. I have a western pleasure so I get ribbons. Comparably good bloodlines, but she is worth $5k by comparison. lol.

This is way fancier than my user name, which legit comes from the stray black and white cat in my neighborhood that I try and force to love me. Last week I ran around the block chasing it with a handful of food. Needless to say, Pepper was not interested.

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