Timeline for Users using other people's Twitter / GitHub on their profile
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| Dec 5, 2022 at 8:46 | vote | accept | l4mpi | ||
| Dec 3, 2022 at 0:06 | comment | added | Rob | Funny, there's only one Linus Torvalds. As for impersonator, it requires a complete profile, just a picture or name isn't enough; they need to do a complete profile that would realistically lead people to believe that it was the impersonated person: meta.stackexchange.com/a/174589/282094 meta.stackexchange.com/a/279109/282094 meta.stackexchange.com/a/174456/282094 meta.stackexchange.com/a/99918/282094 meta.stackexchange.com/q/74584/282094 | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 23:47 | comment | added | lorro | These links could easily be validated - why don't we do it? | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 22:56 | comment | added | 0-1 | I have the same name as Elon Musk, but I am older than him, so actually he's the impersonator. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 15:03 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | Yes, lying about the location is common (their writing style usually betrays them), probably because they think their content will be better received (there may actually be some truth to that). They ought to leave the location out or be unspecific (e.g., "Earth" or "The universe"). | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 7:58 | comment | added | Stephen C | And we have 20 people called Donald Duck. Shocking! And even a Horse_with_no_name who is clearly impersonating a famous horse. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 3:57 | answer | added | Gerardo Furtado | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 1:25 | comment | added | starball Mod | Note: The Acceptable Use Policy says: "Identity Theft and Privacy. Users that misleadingly appropriate the identity of another person are not permitted." Not sure how best to interpret that, but it seems simple to me. Unless there's some weird logic with the "misleadingly" part. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 1:06 | comment | added | Alexei Levenkov | Can be English person living in New York using Vietnamese name to "justify" not spellchecking they posts :) Get/write a userscript that shows Q/A ratio if such accounts bother you enough... | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 18:12 | comment | added | BSMP | I mean, they can be Vietnamese and still be using an English name while living in New York. Linking to social accounts that are clearly two different people is a bigger indicator that the rest of their profile information is also fake. Anyway, I lost my original comment but the summary is that while linking to other folks' social media feels like an incorrect usage of the field, I'm not sure it's an actual problem outside of sincere impersonation attempts. | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 18:05 | answer | added | MachavityMod | timeline score: 25 | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 17:52 | comment | added | Andrew T. | Related on MSE: How far should we go in disallowing 'impersonation' in profiles? | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 17:42 | comment | added | Konrad | Kind of related to this question: Is it allowed to use a profile picture of another person? | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 17:34 | comment | added | dan1st | While it hasn't been featured, it did become a hot meta post... | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 17:30 | comment | added | l4mpi | @Konrad I doubt that's much of a concern with the normal meta users. Maybe if the post gets featured and gets a lot of drive by traffic from main. Also, most trolls are probably busy pouring oil on the dumpster fire over at twitter at the moment ;) | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 17:17 | comment | added | Konrad | I hope this post won't start a flood of fake accounts | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 17:06 | history | edited | 41686d6564 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 1, 2022 at 17:03 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Dec 1, 2022 at 16:30 | history | asked | l4mpi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |