So I was hanging out on my computer this evening, watching some চলচ্ছবি and browsing on Fanpop, when I noticed something that disturbed me. In not one, but two different spots. I discovered several examples of what I believe to be "Ghost Accounts".
"Ghost Accounts" are what I'm calling additional accounts created দ্বারা an already existing ফ্যানপপ member to skew the results of a pick অথবা an argument in their favor. I have read things পোষ্ট হয়েছে দ্বারা other Fanpoppers suggesting their existence in the past, but hadn't knowingly spotted any for myself. Tonight I believe I spotted three different people doing this.
The first example I discovered through a series of picks created দ্বারা a user that I had never seen around before. I'm all for new users, so I answered the picks and made some comments. Within the মতামত sections of these picks, I noticed two other users that I had never seen before. The thing is, the three users didn't always answer the same way, but their মতামত were always similarly rude. I decided to compare all three users and I discovered that they had much in common. They had all joined ফ্যানপপ this month, none of them belonged to any spots, aside from their প্রতীকী - their ফ্যানপপ user pages were all blank, and they had all answered picks from the exact same four spots, and only those four spots.
I found the সেকেন্ড example within a pick that had been answered 444 times. This pick had three pages of comments, and on the সেকেন্ড page, I saw the following: Three মতামত that ব্যক্ত the exact same thing, in a row. All three user names were different but fit the same pattern, Girls-first-name followed immediately দ্বারা a two digit number. An example of what they looked like is "Mary25". And all three belonged to users that had no icons, contributions, অথবা information to speak of. Not to mention they didn't belong to a single spot.
The third, and luckily, final example I noticed was within the exact same pick as the সেকেন্ড example. As I mentioned, this particular pick had three pages of comments. After পাঠ করা through them, I went back to check the results of the pick. I found the option that came in সেকেন্ড place particularly odd because in those three pages of comments, I hadn't seen a single one in support of it. This option had been added to the pick দ্বারা a user other than the picks creator. I went ahead and clicked on the person who added this option only to discover, আপনি guessed it, that their user page was blank! In fact, this was the only pick they had ever answered.
Obviously, I have no way of knowing if these are in fact "Ghost Accounts", but the coincidences seem overwhelmingly in favor of that being the case. Since I had never before noticed behavior such as this, and I noticed it three whole times today, I decided to think of three reasons that creating these accounts to answer picks is just plain silly. Without further ado:
#1 - আপনি Know Better!
It's not a presidential election, ফ্যানপপ is for fun! There is no point in seeing your choice win if you know it isn't genuine. Do আপনি really think that seeing your পছন্দ thing "win" a pick will have আরো impact on someone than পাঠ করা your well thought-out, well written মতামত would?
#2 - It's disrespectful to Other Users
There are two main functions to posting a pick. One is that আপনি get to share your opinions with others. The other is that আপনি get to see what other people think. দ্বারা tampering with the results of a pick, আপনি deprive its maker of the latter দ্বারা making ব্যক্ত results inaccurate. I know that when I post a pick, what I most enjoy afterwards is পাঠ করা the মতামত that it spawned from others. It's great to make your opinion known, but use মতামত to do so. I guarantee that they will be read.
#3 - Being in the Minority is OK
So what if your opinion is not the জনপ্রিয় one. Take pride in the fact that you're an independent thinker অথবা that আপনি see something where few others do. অথবা better yet, flex your বিতর্ক skills দ্বারা trying to persuade others to see your point.
So those are my reasons. I know that most of আপনি who are পাঠ করা this are cool, respectful people who realize the idiocy of committing the aforementioned act. I was just annoyed with what I saw tonight so I had to release my irritation somewhere. Thanks for listening.
"Ghost Accounts" are what I'm calling additional accounts created দ্বারা an already existing ফ্যানপপ member to skew the results of a pick অথবা an argument in their favor. I have read things পোষ্ট হয়েছে দ্বারা other Fanpoppers suggesting their existence in the past, but hadn't knowingly spotted any for myself. Tonight I believe I spotted three different people doing this.
The first example I discovered through a series of picks created দ্বারা a user that I had never seen around before. I'm all for new users, so I answered the picks and made some comments. Within the মতামত sections of these picks, I noticed two other users that I had never seen before. The thing is, the three users didn't always answer the same way, but their মতামত were always similarly rude. I decided to compare all three users and I discovered that they had much in common. They had all joined ফ্যানপপ this month, none of them belonged to any spots, aside from their প্রতীকী - their ফ্যানপপ user pages were all blank, and they had all answered picks from the exact same four spots, and only those four spots.
I found the সেকেন্ড example within a pick that had been answered 444 times. This pick had three pages of comments, and on the সেকেন্ড page, I saw the following: Three মতামত that ব্যক্ত the exact same thing, in a row. All three user names were different but fit the same pattern, Girls-first-name followed immediately দ্বারা a two digit number. An example of what they looked like is "Mary25". And all three belonged to users that had no icons, contributions, অথবা information to speak of. Not to mention they didn't belong to a single spot.
The third, and luckily, final example I noticed was within the exact same pick as the সেকেন্ড example. As I mentioned, this particular pick had three pages of comments. After পাঠ করা through them, I went back to check the results of the pick. I found the option that came in সেকেন্ড place particularly odd because in those three pages of comments, I hadn't seen a single one in support of it. This option had been added to the pick দ্বারা a user other than the picks creator. I went ahead and clicked on the person who added this option only to discover, আপনি guessed it, that their user page was blank! In fact, this was the only pick they had ever answered.
Obviously, I have no way of knowing if these are in fact "Ghost Accounts", but the coincidences seem overwhelmingly in favor of that being the case. Since I had never before noticed behavior such as this, and I noticed it three whole times today, I decided to think of three reasons that creating these accounts to answer picks is just plain silly. Without further ado:
#1 - আপনি Know Better!
It's not a presidential election, ফ্যানপপ is for fun! There is no point in seeing your choice win if you know it isn't genuine. Do আপনি really think that seeing your পছন্দ thing "win" a pick will have আরো impact on someone than পাঠ করা your well thought-out, well written মতামত would?
#2 - It's disrespectful to Other Users
There are two main functions to posting a pick. One is that আপনি get to share your opinions with others. The other is that আপনি get to see what other people think. দ্বারা tampering with the results of a pick, আপনি deprive its maker of the latter দ্বারা making ব্যক্ত results inaccurate. I know that when I post a pick, what I most enjoy afterwards is পাঠ করা the মতামত that it spawned from others. It's great to make your opinion known, but use মতামত to do so. I guarantee that they will be read.
#3 - Being in the Minority is OK
So what if your opinion is not the জনপ্রিয় one. Take pride in the fact that you're an independent thinker অথবা that আপনি see something where few others do. অথবা better yet, flex your বিতর্ক skills দ্বারা trying to persuade others to see your point.
So those are my reasons. I know that most of আপনি who are পাঠ করা this are cool, respectful people who realize the idiocy of committing the aforementioned act. I was just annoyed with what I saw tonight so I had to release my irritation somewhere. Thanks for listening.
I did it again.
I accidentally hit the "start chat" tab again.
And couldn't remember how make it go away.
I've had this problem a few times before and have to re-learn it every time.
For some reason, I'm always under the impression that the solution lies under my পরিলেখ settings.
It does not.
So now there is an প্রবন্ধ to remind me, and anyone else who needs it, how to get rid of this dang thang.
Step 1: Under the "contacts" tab, click "I am online." The words, not the pencil. If আপনি click the pencil, it will complicate things and you'll have to reload the page.
Step 2: Click "Log out."
It's not the most obvious way out, but it's easy once আপনি finally remember how to do it, so I hope this helps cut down on some frustration. (If not for you, at least for me পরবর্তি time I accidentally open it and frantically খুঁজুন for a solution. =P)
I accidentally hit the "start chat" tab again.
And couldn't remember how make it go away.
I've had this problem a few times before and have to re-learn it every time.
For some reason, I'm always under the impression that the solution lies under my পরিলেখ settings.
It does not.
So now there is an প্রবন্ধ to remind me, and anyone else who needs it, how to get rid of this dang thang.
Step 1: Under the "contacts" tab, click "I am online." The words, not the pencil. If আপনি click the pencil, it will complicate things and you'll have to reload the page.
Step 2: Click "Log out."
It's not the most obvious way out, but it's easy once আপনি finally remember how to do it, so I hope this helps cut down on some frustration. (If not for you, at least for me পরবর্তি time I accidentally open it and frantically খুঁজুন for a solution. =P)
দ্বারা the way this is my first soapbox
Ok, I usually don't make user guides but this one needs to be made. I have seen a lot of picks and a lot of them are boring অথবা annoying. Here is a তালিকা of steps to help আপনি out.
1. Try to have আরো than three উত্তর if possible. If the প্রশ্ন is "Who should Jim be with?" Put, Karen and Pam, and then put an answer like neither অথবা Katy.
2.Always have pictures for the প্রশ্ন if it isn't a yes, no, অথবা maybe question. Pictures bring in আরো অনুরাগী and make the picks আরো interesting.
3. Try to ask প্রশ্ন that people haven't already asked and প্রশ্ন that people will be interested in. Don't make it boring.
Now these are the three golden steps to making a good, quality pick on fanpop. If আপনি feel I need to add anything, then please leave it in the comments.
1. Try to have আরো than three উত্তর if possible. If the প্রশ্ন is "Who should Jim be with?" Put, Karen and Pam, and then put an answer like neither অথবা Katy.
2.Always have pictures for the প্রশ্ন if it isn't a yes, no, অথবা maybe question. Pictures bring in আরো অনুরাগী and make the picks আরো interesting.
3. Try to ask প্রশ্ন that people haven't already asked and প্রশ্ন that people will be interested in. Don't make it boring.
Now these are the three golden steps to making a good, quality pick on fanpop. If আপনি feel I need to add anything, then please leave it in the comments.
I'm guessing a lot of people have all ready have found this problem but if আপনি don't understand then it's like this:
One দিন I decided to create a new club of something that didn't exist as a club yet but I couldn't find the 'Create a club' button. Trust me I looked high and low for the thing but couldn't find it. When I logged out of my account at last there I saw it, the 'Create a club button' so when I clicked on it they of course asked me to sign back in but when I did I was the same position I was in before clicking.
For some people this problem don't seem to happen but for people like me who want to create সংগঠন but can't because the button is unavailable well it's frustrating. I've been looking abound for some kind of answer but the only thing that came up was a link link
this only leads to আপনি having to sign in again. I don't know if it's the signing in thing that's the problem but it really shouldn't be.
Please fix this problem Fanpop!
One দিন I decided to create a new club of something that didn't exist as a club yet but I couldn't find the 'Create a club' button. Trust me I looked high and low for the thing but couldn't find it. When I logged out of my account at last there I saw it, the 'Create a club button' so when I clicked on it they of course asked me to sign back in but when I did I was the same position I was in before clicking.
For some people this problem don't seem to happen but for people like me who want to create সংগঠন but can't because the button is unavailable well it's frustrating. I've been looking abound for some kind of answer but the only thing that came up was a link link
this only leads to আপনি having to sign in again. I don't know if it's the signing in thing that's the problem but it really shouldn't be.
Please fix this problem Fanpop!