One Down, How Many More to Go? Multiple Personality Poster busted--for awhile

What is it about Rep comments that triggers Multiple Personality Posting Disorder (MPPD)? Victims of this under-reported and little understood mental disorder crank out numerous responses to news stories under different names, sometimes even arguing amongst themselves, turning even the most "safe" news stories into a game of Who's On First?

Although no intervention has been effected for our most disturbing MPPDer, She Who Is Protected for some Inexplicable Reason by the Rep, keen-eyed Kitty Burgett yesterday uncovered another victim of this dread disease Alpha Male aka Bushman, who in a moment of MPPD confusion, posted the same comment under both monikers,

Under Canton man accused of beating convenience store manager with board we find his/her/its/their response to WestElementaryMom's astute sociological observation that everyone she knows in Canton with the last name of Williams (the surname of the board banger) "always has a record a mile long."

Alfa Male:

WestElementaryMom said..every guy with the last name williams that i have known from canton always has a record a mile long.

Maybe that is true, for the ones 'she has known'. How do you know who she knows?

She didn't say 'all williams' or even 90%. Just the ones she knew, could be 100% correct!!

followed immediately by:

bushman:
WestElementaryMom said..every guy with the last name williams that i have known from canton always has a record a mile long.

Maybe that is true, for the ones 'she has known'. How do you know who she knows?

She didn't say 'all williams' or even 90%. Just the ones she knew, could be 100% correct!!

Later in the evening, a regular MPPD-free correspondent posted sensible questions to Rep editor, Jeff Gauger, about how the comment police handles sufferers of MPPD. (I have cut the first paragraph, a comment about the article itself)

Margaret:
I have a question for Jeff at Canton Rep or whoever is in charge today: I know you have decided that it is fine for us to post comments under some unrecognizable name or handle. I have almost accepted that because of the loonies who post here. I want to know if it is also OK for us to post comments under more than one name. Can we use several names (or handles) to post comments? I know we need a different e-mail address for each name and we have to be signed in under that name. So can I get 10 different e-mail addresses with different user names and still post comments? Can I get 10 different e-mail addresses with different user names and still post comments?

To which Alterego, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Alpha Male and bushman, replied brilliantly:

Alterego
Margaret, Yes, Yes and Yes. Or you could just cut and paste like this,

'WestElementaryMom said..every guy with the last name williams that i have known from canton always has a record a mile long. Maybe that is true, for the ones 'she has known'. How do you know who she knows? She didn't say 'all williams' or even 90%. Just the ones she knew, could be 100% correct!!'

In order to make someone look unscrupulous.

Apparently some mischievious reader, unable to control an unspeakable impulse to discredit Alpha Male, hacked bushman's account, and cut, pasted, and re-posted Alpha Man's profound comment in order to suggest to readers that bushman suffers from MPPD.

Ironically, immediately before Alpha Male/bushman sent their double reply, Alpha Male posted the following:

Alpha Male:
OH, OK..if I make a mistake, intentional or not, just beat me with a board. Well that would be the last beating that person gave anyone!! That's why they make cages for animals and/or cemeteries. It's called prison or grave....bye bye

No word, as of this posting, from Alpha Male or bushman. Where could they be? Beating each other with a 2 x 4 while Alterego watches?

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Actually, we love Canton. We just hate the ignorant, racist, sexist, war-mongering creepy bullies who have taken over the "comments" of our beloved hometown newspaper, The Canton Repository. We long for the days when posters were forced to post under their real names or reasonable facsimile, not allowed to use "clever” nom de plumes like brickbats. Only a few months ago our discussions were heated, but almost always civil. Now it's like calling into Sean Hannity.

I Hate Canton is non-partisan, though some of us hold strong partisan views. We bicker among ourselves occasionally over a number of issues, but believe that malicious discussions are not limited by political orientation. Democrats and Republicans alike bully their way through the Rep every day, some obviously suffering from MPPD, (Multiple Posting Personality Disorder) a sad mental disease which forces various personalities to post opposing views and then argue with themselves. Take Shirley, for instance. On second thought, don't!

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I Hate Canton offers samples of reader-bully insanity, insight into the MPPD mind, commentary on Canton, We want to reclaim Canton and the Canton Repository for the rationale and sane.

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