<p>Thank you jimmi. And Inconnu, I was joking lol. Clueless was not white by the way.</p>
<p>jimmi just deleted his post by clicking edit -> delete -> delete this message</p>
<p>he has waay too much time on his hands…</p>
<p>it also sounds like jimmi may be a friend of clueless/katie</p>
<p>Alright, you guys got me. I’m clueless and katie.</p>
<p>No, your supposed to be my friend and clueless’s friend jim! Now they know!</p>
<p>Why is clueless arguing with herself? :</p>
<p>What was her other name? Snowflake? That one died too. Tsk tsk.</p>
<p>You know you’re on Berkeley CC when every new user is a new incarnation of Clueless!</p>
<p>lol you just know she’s been following this thread</p>
<p>There has been some research on decloaking identities from analyzing posts that is pretty chilling. People have detectable patterns in their writing that are like fingerprints or DNA matching - not absolutely unique but able to point out people with extremely high probabilities of matching the sample. It doesn’t take many posts to find the pattern. Vocabulary, jargon, slang, grammer/spelling errors . . . these can also hint at age, education, peer group, geographic area. </p>
<p>Once you have high confidence that a set of posts are the same person, and if they are collected from a variety of sources, a post under someones real name or with data that they attended a certain class or came from a certain school, can help figure out the identity for all the posts, including those that were presumed to be anonymous or under an alias. </p>
<p>People can do this intuitively, which is what many are doing here when they read posts from a number of IDs and believe them very likely to be the same person (the ‘clueless’ hypothesis).</p>
<p>This is a conspiracy, damn it!</p>
<p>didn’t really mean to start this… but yeah I’ve been pretty convinced about this for a while. Fake white girl name was a smarter idea though lol.</p>
<p>Aw I’m not fake at all. That’s upsetting. But I AM caucasian.</p>
<p>as journey says, don’t stop believing.</p>
<p>I won’t ; ] I’m a dreamer. And I will make my dreams come true.</p>
<p>Wait, what’s making us think clueless wasn’t Caucasian?</p>
<p>Must…not… say… anything… racist.</p>
<p>Before everyone had a custom CalNet ID people could use your SID the day of your telebears appointment to repeatedly try to login with a false password until you got locked out from the system & missed your apptmnt.</p>
<p>Thank you for answering the question! First person, aye?</p>
<p>people who say “aye” or “cheers” need to shut the f up.</p>