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Old 05-17-2007, 11:12 AM
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The Experiment (and it's conclusions)

Hi guys,

After last night I decided to finish my experiment and draw my conclusions. Wait, what experiment?
Well I've been here for a large month now, and during this time I tried some things out to see how people would react to certain things. But let me start with the beginning.

As you may remember I stumbled upon tp.net by accident, I joined your isketch room because it had the something awful wordlist. So at first I was just bored and wanted to play, but then you wouldn't tell me what tp.net was so I found out myself.
Most of you, except for Papayo i guess, seemed to think of me as annoying, so that's when I decided to start my experiment.
I joined the forum to see if I could get people to like me, even though they though I was aan ass at first. But it turned out tp.net is quite an active forum with a lot of members, so I made a bigger approach.

I've been interested in the human psychology for a long time, why do people react in certain ways to certain situations, and why does this vary with the individual?
So I decided to stay here for about a month and find out what actions would get me liked by some people, and what actions would get some people to dislike me.

You should understand though: during the last month I haven't been acting just on that, most things I've said are something I'm really behind.
But my overall approach has been way more agressive than I normally am. I've been on here a lot, more than I'm usually online at a forum, to get as much face time as possible. That way I could quickly be known and quickly get to know a lot of the active members.

I was trying not to get to involved emotionally, but that kind of failed. I started to really like a few people on here, most of the people actually.
Though I'm proud to say that I haven't begun to hate anyone on here, there isn't even someone I dislike really.

If I hurt you or made you feel bad during this month though, I'm sorry, but I was just looking how you were going to react to it. The hurting wasn't the goal, the reaction was.

I really hope I didn't offend anybody by doing this, but I would still like to apologize for using you in this psychological experiment, 'cause I guess you deserve better than that. Although it has been quite an interesting experience for me.
I only did this for myself btw, nobody else gets to read my conclusions or hear about the things that happened here except for you guys of course.

In the next post I'll give you my conclusions about the people who have been on here enough for me to create an image about them in my head.
Of course I won't pretend I know everything about you, I'm just giving you what you seem like to the outside world, or a part of it at least.

Anyway, I'll probably keep visiting this forum because you seem like interesting people, more than I could hope for. But I guess it won't be as frequent as the past month.

I wish the best to all of you,

Vincent

PS: If you've got any questions, feel free to ask
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Old 05-17-2007, 11:13 AM
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Mailduck
Well there's no denying I think quite highly of you. You're a really funny girl, always there to have a laugh with. You were one of the first to act nicely to me, which is a good thing.
Sometimes you seem a little clumsy (deleting the pictures on your dads camera for example ), but that only seemed cute to me.
Not only that, you look good too, so you must really be cursed if you've never got a boyfriend, because you deserve one.
You're definitely one of the people I want to keep talking too .

Papayo
Wow, you're really one of the nicest people on the net. Even when a guy barges into your isketch room and refuses to leave you act nice to me. You've never said or did anything mean on this forum and when there's a newbie you immediately act nice to him.
This is really a beautiful quality, even though sometimes people might hurt you because you're too trusting, you should never stop being like that.
And even besides that you're a fun guy to talk too, we really seem to get along well, so if it's fine with you I'd like to keep talking to you aswell

DutchMB2
It didn't take you long to adapt to me either, although I've never really gotten hight of you. You seem kind of to yourself, but without placing yourself outside the group. That's okay, nothing wrong with it.
Oh and special mention for your dry remarks, I've laughed numerous times at your comments in the shoutbox and chatbox.

spted dinosaur
You and your sister represent your family really well, your parents must have raised both of you well :)
You're a funny girl, I like how you make a lot of topics with interesting questions in them. And you always seem nice to people, I've never caught you saying something bad about someone, how nice of you.
Oh, but you need to stop hitting your sister with rubber bands though

Midna
The uncrowned queen of the photo-topic. Man you make a lot of pictures, that isn't that big of an achievement, but only making nice pictures is. You look hot, cute, arrogant, happy and even stoned, how versatile!
It's too bad you think you won't be a model, sucks for the world to miss out on you :(
BTW I really liked how you added me on msn so quickly after seeing my pic haha

Rollo
Well I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings last night, but I was hoping for some fireworks on my final night undercover, and questioning the way you acted in your goodbye topic in a chatbox full of people was definitely the way to do that.
Anyways, you seem to have a lot going on in your life while you're still young. That must be harsh on you, so I wish you all the best regarding that.
I thought you made a good admin by the way, the people seemed to really respect your authority, even when they didn't always like you as a person. You were good at keeping order at the forum, so it's a loss for the forum to see you go.
I liked you as a person too, although I didn't always agreed with your ideas. Our discussion about communism really gained you some respect from my side.

Dave
Wow, you really impressed me. During my first two weeks here I was convinced you were a 24 year old doing some impressive study at a high class university. How shocked I was to find out you're just 16, you act so mature!
Not even that, you're really nice too, all the people here seem to love you and I can't blame them either. I remember you said you wished you weren't so shy, well there's no need to be because you've got a lot to offer.
I wish you so much luck with improving the site, although you did such a great job already. This forum has so many features I've never seen before, it's awesome.
Keep up the good work :)

JJAB91
You're a tornado dude o_O, you never seem to get tired and always want to keep talking. While so much energy can be tiring to people at times, in the end you seemed like a nice person to me. At least you were the talk of the town a lot of times, never a boring day with you

Jess_Canada
Talking about acting mature for your age, geez. I still can't really believe you're just ten. You act so much older and seem so wise for your age, that's cool!
I also like how you have your role models like Courtney Love, it's nice to have someone to look up to. As long as you remember Jess is every bit as interesting as Courtney, you don't need to be exactly like her to be cool.
And yay for Nirvana fans \o/

BentheMathwiz
Well you didn't think I was going to forget about you did you ?
Don't worry, I think you're a nice person at hart, you just have some difficulties expressing it sometimes.
Every know and then you seemed to act like a bitten dog to me, it's ok to be sad but nobody really likes somebody who asks for confirmation regularly.
I think you're just a shy guy who could use some extra confidence, because you have some things to give. I liked the topics you made about philosophical things like 'what is a friend?' etc.
You just need to learn it isn't cool to act like you're better than other people, and making them seem like idiots so you seem better than them. Just be yourself, that should be enough for people to like you, and if not you shouldn't really care about them.
If you realize that I think you will become a very nice guy :)
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Old 05-17-2007, 11:14 AM
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Well, those where the people I talked to the most, of course I have a lot of honorable mentions of the members I just didn't talk to enough. Here we go!

digirob89
You make nice drawings on that art pad site, keep up the good work!

mcfugg
The world needs more Beatles fans \o/

oweonsito
You've got a cute kid, and are a really nice guy yourself :)

Hylianhitman
I couldn't really get a clue about you, but overall you seemed like a nice guy to me (although you think you're an asshole yourself ). You made me laugh every now and then though, good thing!

Jimmyray
Although half of this forum thinks you're an annoying spammer I kind of liked you. I guess I can still have fun with the humor of a twelve year old

Avelanch
Yay for the White Stripes! That makes me like you, even though you hated Borat

MexiLow
Although you seemed rude to me in the beginning, you proved you know how to apologise. That's a thing a lot of people are incapable of. So in the end i think you're a good guy.

Ace of Spades
Well I didn't get to know you very well, but I think you're cool :)
Oh and your sig made me LOL.

Toasty!
I wish every twelve year old was as smart as you.

Lindsay
I loved playing truth or dare with you

ZeldaGameLover
Barely got a chance to speak to you, but everybody's got to love Zelda

c.andrew.h
Umm...hi!

Pythonkid
You seemed to be a silent force on this forum. Gotta love pokémon though

Miyahon
Good luck with your zelda case modding!

Mistress Hazard
You listen to some pretty cool electronic music, but besides that you are a nice person to talk to too :)

Codypelma
A person who posts photo's in the phototread is a person I like.

hayley_beth24
Thanks for complimenting my drawings in my art thread :)

Yuxi
Keep up the good drawing

Ece Zdawg671
What up dawg? Nice nickname lol.
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Old 05-17-2007, 11:22 AM
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very interesting, i know i had to do something of the similar nature in a Canadian studies class and report on the social aspects of the community, i stayed in that community for many years after the experiment myself. It's really interesting to observe people in an anonymous social setting. I do question whether some people would act this way in real life (anonymity removed), but thats a question for another day.
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Old 05-17-2007, 11:59 AM
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I'm quite surprised, an experiment? Hmmm, it's very interesting to read though. But I didn't expect it. Just for fun, here's my report on you :)


Vincent
Nobody could've predicted that MrVince from iSketch, that no one liked first, could change into Vincent: An active and very nice member. Heh, I still remember the first time we met you, Rollo was all mad at you for joining our room. But I always think that you have to treat newbs nice, because they can change into respected members ;) Your drawing skills are great, and I've had lots of fun conversations with you. I hope you'll stay and keep posting actively
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This kinda makes me laugh because I have been examining people since the time I started also. I only try to make people look like idiots when they have pissed me off and lost have lost my respect or have insulted people behind their backs of being or doing things that I know or at least think to be untrue. I used to be a nice guy until stuff I really don't want to talk about happened. These days I am just a mean grumpy guy.
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Woah...You were right about the whole "shocked" part. I mean that is amazing how all along you were noting people's characters. Great job there, here is what I will say about you:

Vincent
We would all get annoyed at you because here comes this guy who just barges numerous times into out isketch matches and then crushes us every single time. You seemed kinda cool, so I got used to you after a while. When you joined the forum, I wasn't really annoyed at all, I was just teasing you and all for ruining our isketch matches . You're one of my best friends here, and I am always thankful that whenever I am in a tough situation, you are always there to back me up. I should also add that you have great art abilities ;p. I respect you a whole lot, thanks for being there, you are really a great friend to have of this forum, so please don't ever leave.
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Old 05-17-2007, 07:12 PM
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wow, good job on all the uh, evaluations! oh, and thanks for mentioning me! :)

btw, you are perfectly right, Everybody does have to love Zelda!
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