Got to be honest I'm actually a little concerned for the mental state of someone who openly seeks attention and sulks so bad to pretend they quit an online forum only to return pretending to be a member of the opposite sex.
Bizarre.
I agree, to be honest I actually don't take a huge amount of pleasure out of all this as whoever is behind wonky/carla clearly has some issues going on and my intention is not to tip them over the edge so I do apologise if I have been mean and caused upset. I'm not a bully and do feel a bit like one at the moment, but I'm afraid it got to the stage where enough was enough, and as everyone apparently believed Carla actually was a girl I figured it a bit weird to have kept it going so long.
I am aware that the mods were in the know as I raised my concerns a few weeks back to Dave and Maestro, and they assured me that they were monitoring the situation which was entirely the right thing to have done,but I seriously cannot believe nobody else had any suspicion at all - it was screamingly obvious to me!!
I twigged that isn't wasn't a girl straight away, "she" randomly mentioned Wonky once in a thread for no apparent reason (if "she" was such a newbie she wouldn't have heard of him as he'd "quit" before "she" came along) then having Cambridge as location got me putting two and two together and then I just looked out for the style of content, which has been incredibly similar to that of Wonky - pedantic, over the top, juvenile, incessant (whinging on and on about the 1950's comments on O/T threads for example), boring, offering nothing in way of interesting debate and all over pretty much every thread!!
I've been subtly fishing for a few weeks, replying to him using the incorrect form of "lesser" as often as I can (as spotted by Dave) but I somehow didn't manage to get a single bite, and again none of you noticed! I was going to wait until he revealed himself in some kind of "ta-da! it was me all along!" article but it looks like I beat him to it.
Like I said I've always had a hunch for this kind of thing, I can generally spot a WUM a mile off on both here and the old 606, no technology involved and it's no particular skill that I have - though I guess the nature of who I work for should maybe qualify me more than most.
I don't think this person is a WUM, more a slightly unhinged individual who almost certainly doesn't mean anyone any harm, but should probably step away from internet forums for a while. I certainly don't expect, or wish for any kind of apology as at the end of the day it really is no biggie, though lying about being a girl might be a bit too much for some people, I don't know. Just hope the fella is ok, and I genuinely do as he doesn't come across as being a particularly stable chap and my intention was never to be mean
