Let's hear from the "stalkees"

[Amanaduial the archer]

Originally Posted by HerenIstarion

No technical means available, observation skills at your disposal - if you are on an X thread, which you just dug up from some dusty archives, and in 10 minutes time several other users are seen as 'reading X thread', that is the surest sign you are being followed around.

cheers

To be fair, it does really involve alot of observation skills being used, though - you just keep a-refreshin' that 'Whose Online' page and it's all dandy. I mean, this is stalking where you really do need to put your back into being stalked, y' know: takes some effort

[Bêthberry]

if you are on an X thread, which you just dug up from some dusty archives, and in 10 minutes time several other users are seen as 'reading X thread', that is the surest sign you are being followed around.

I'm not sure that is the only deduction one can make, HI. Is it not possible that people see the newly retrieved thread name in Who's Online, find the thread name interesting, and go read the thread? Especially so in your case since you have a reputation for finding old jems.

I think it would take repeated episodes of such events, and repeated over the most
inane or uninteresting threads, to rule out the possibility that it is the thread rather than the stalkee that is being pursued. Or do I not understand this 'stalkee' thing?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Just a query...how does one know if he or she is being stalked online?

I stick with the easiest way of knowing: outright confessions by the stalkers.

Fea

[Amanaduial the archer]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

I stick with the easiest way of knowing: outright confessions by the stalkers.

Well yes, to take the alternate route...

Originally Posted by bethberry

Is it not possible that people see the newly retrieved thread name in Who's Online, find the thread name interesting, and go read the thread?

Stalkee Rule No. 2: Ego is the centre of all

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by HerenIstarion

No technical means available, observation skills at your disposal - if you are on an X thread, which you just dug up from some dusty archives, and in 10 minutes time several other users are seen as 'reading X thread', that is the surest sign you are being followed around.

Well, one could be just longing for company...as is usually my case.

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

I stick with the easiest way of knowing: outright confessions by the stalkers.

Kudos to the honest stalkers and their stalkees! But isn't the point of stalking supposed to be following someone around, giving that person such paranoia that drives him/her crazy? But then, this is the Downs...being stalked is actually a good thing.

Originally Posted by Bethberry

Or do I not understand this 'stalkee' thing?

How could you not? You are most likely a stalkee yourself!

[HerenIstarion]

But then, this is the Downs...being stalked is actually a good thing

Yup, we do all things other way round, sort of Cheshire cats we are - we growl when we are happy and wag our tails in anger, we celebrate our deathdays and to be stalked is a compliment rather, thing to be proud of, not a cause for anxiety . (Just a tiny bit of shameless advertising - we even turn poetry inside out!)

Observation skills re: as I'm both stalkee and a stalker myself, I do refresh who's online page to see what is it that my dead buddies are up to

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Doing things the other way around, eh? It is almost as if we enter a whole new planet when logging on to the Barrowdowns. For example, people are actually polite to you here...

But getting back on topic, it does appear as though the stalked become stalkers themselves after being exposed to this sick, new world. Tis like an horrific drug methinks. Well, I for one am proud to say that I am not a stalker. I am, however, gibberingly suspicious of every single one of you.