Topic: What I don't get about Reddit stories

Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU started this discussion 3 hours ago #137,731

When they're telling stories they give fake names to their characters and usually phrase it like "My friend, let's call her Abigail".

Sometimes it's even just a letter.

Why though? You're not posting their headshot and identifiable information. Just use their name. And even if you are going to use a fake name, why does everyone draw attention to it with "Let's call them [name]"?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 hour ago, 1 hour later[^] [v] #1,458,305

That and "posting from a throwaway" annoy the shit out of me. IDGAF if you're using a throwaway, it has zero impact on the story.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 hour ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,458,306

And they all clapped

Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE joined in and replied with this 1 hour ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,458,308

There have been cases of people seeing stories that they're mentioned in on Reddit, especially when they go viral or whatever. Or just, you know, someone you know might see it and it'll get back to somebody.

I don't know, to me it seems like a pretty basic privacy measure. If I was gonna post something like that, I'd probably change around some details too.

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Anonymous C replied with this 1 hour ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,458,309

@previous (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)
Can confirm, there was a roast poast about an old theater troop in my town and I totally chimed in. I'm not shy!

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 41 minutes ago, 34 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,458,313

@1,458,308 (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)
Never heard about this until now! Went ahead and found real examples, even found public records.

This isn't my fault, I have a compulsion. Jim's carelessness is the start of all this, he knew better and lured me into this.

Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU (OP) replied with this 31 minutes ago, 10 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,458,315

@1,458,308 (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)

Oh this hyper specific story about how this guys friend shat their pants at mcdonalds sounds just like that time I shat my pants at McDonalds, but he's using a different name which he has taken the time to let us know is fake, I guess it can't be about me.

Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU (OP) double-posted this 30 minutes ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,458,316

my point being the use of the fake names isn't necessarily what annoys me (although a first name isn't going to identify anyone), it's the part where they specifically point out that the name is fake and they phrase it with "We'll call him/her Name", it's always that phrasing. Just use the fake fucking name, what does it matter

(Edited 1 minute later.)

Minichan