Writers in Hiding

[MattZexter]

Any of us following the latest job search/hiring trends know that hiring managers are using every assest at thier disposal to weed out potental misfits and profit draining dopes from thier hiring pool. This only makes sense as we are in a recession and no one should be wasting money on mistakes.
My concern is being discovered. I'm an entry level worker, a twenty seven year old college graduate to be exact with a BA. in a liberal arts field. Teaching never suited me, so now I'm diving into the corperate world. Meanwhile, I'm indulging and looking share my two favorite hobbies, writing and porn. The problem, of course, is not being linked to those hobbies.
My question is to hiring managers (I know you guys and girls are here, too) and to those of you are are far more savy at internet identity protection then I.
How does one truely remain anonomys on sites like Literotica?
Furthermore, how does one remain anonomys on the net in general?
What kinds of methods do hiring managers use to search for employees?

Wishing all the Best

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Any of us following the latest job search/hiring trends know that hiring managers are using every assest at thier disposal to weed out potental misfits and profit draining dopes from thier hiring pool. This only makes sense as we are in a recession and no one should be wasting money on mistakes.
My concern is being discovered. I'm an entry level worker, a twenty seven year old college graduate to be exact with a BA. in a liberal arts field. Teaching never suited me, so now I'm diving into the corperate world. Meanwhile, I'm indulging and looking share my two favorite hobbies, writing and porn. The problem, of course, is not being linked to those hobbies.
My question is to hiring managers (I know you guys and girls are here, too) and to those of you are are far more savy at internet identity protection then I.
How does one truely remain anonomys on sites like Literotica?
Furthermore, how does one remain anonomys on the net in general?
What kinds of methods do hiring managers use to search for employees?

Wishing all the Best

Many of us share this concern. We have positions that would be in serious danger if our pastime here were to go public. Therefore, never show your face. Do not reveal where you live. Never speak of the Real World in anything but the most general terms. Even should you attend a gathering of like-minded folk, put only your avatar on your name tag. Whatever that AV shows, that's who you are. Assume the identity. Make up a cover story.


That should be sufficient for you human-types.

 

[sr71plt]

The answer is pretty obvious. Involves personal responsibility, though. As in anything you do, weigh the risks and advantages of indulging.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The typical hiring manager wants an 18 year old black lesbian with a disability, foreign if at all possible, PhD with 20 years experience, willing to work the night shift for minimum wage. Vices are a plus unless its smoking.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

The typical hiring manager wants an 18 year old black lesbian with a disability, foreign if at all possible, PhD with 20 years experience, willing to work the night shift for minimum wage. Vices are a plus unless its smoking.

... and you're still a cunt.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

... and you're still a cunt.

And youre still bored.

STELLA could use some help with her transformation to Pee Wee Herman; be a sport and send her your gray suit, bow tie, and Schwinn bicycle.

 

[oggbashan]

Anything you post on the internet is in the public domain. Anyone can look at it, copy it, gather information from it - and use it to your disadvantage if that is what they want to do.

Hiding behind a pseudonym, a nom-de-plume, an alt is a sensible thing to do when writing erotica/pornography.

It might also be advisable for contributing to ANY social websites. Do you really want your youthful indiscretions available for decades? Or even your ancient opinions on the Presidential Election/Health Care/Gun Control/Abortion when you meet someone years later?

The search facility on this site can reveal everything you have ever posted, even those opinions expressed when you were drunk, annoyed, irritated, argumentative or just feeling silly. You might not remember everything you have ever written. The system does and everything can be found with little effort.

Og

PS. Even if you go back and edit your posts, you can never be sure that someone didn't copy the unedited version. The system records not just the edited version but the original. If you posted a very revealing AV for a few minutes, you can be sure that someone right-clicked and saved it on their hard drive.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

And youre still bored.

STELLA could use some help with her transformation to Pee Wee Herman; be a sport and send her your gray suit, bow tie, and Schwinn bicycle.

wtf are you jabbering on about, you senile twat?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

<--That may not be my real name, but...




<-- That is my real face. I'm not hiding from anybody. Not yet anyway...

 

[oggbashan]

<--That may not be my real name, but...




<-- That is my real face. I'm not hiding from anybody. Not yet anyway...

Snap! But that is not my real beard colour. It's stage make-up. I don't usually dress as Henry VIII. I can't find enough black tights that are large enough.

Og

 

[PayDay]

My question is to hiring managers (I know you guys and girls are here, too) and to those of you are are far more savy at internet identity protection then I.
How does one truely remain anonomys on sites like Literotica?
Furthermore, how does one remain anonomys on the net in general?
What kinds of methods do hiring managers use to search for employees?

You're fucked, sorry, welcome to the information age

If you are terribly concerned, start with a non-static IP and go from there.

But seriously, you're fucked.

 

[estragon]

The Age of Privacy, which began with the 18th Century, ended with the end of the Twentieth. You no longer have any expectation of privacy. The internet has replaced Big Brother.

 

[PennLady]

There's no absolute privacy, so you'll have to do the best you can.

For one thing, don't mess with it at work on a work machine or work-provided device. If there's nothing to track, there's nothing to find.

Set up -- as I'm sure you have -- an email account on a site like Gmail or Yahoo that is NOT CONNECTED to any accounts you have with your real name.

Be careful who you tell.

Even then it's not foolproof. I know that one person on here has figured out my real name, but (at the moment, at least) it's not a big deal. You can only do what you can.

 

[Stella_Omega]

... and you're still a cunt.

wtf are you jabbering on about, you senile twat?

jimmybob has no vagina. To imply such is downright insulting to women.

But you could call him an asshole. He has one of those-- Two actually, one at each end.

 

[sr71plt]

On the privacy issue, for starters take a good look at the job you are applying for and set that up against your life situation and what you really want to turn on too (and can't bring yourself to avoid). Then imagine the worst case scenario of who you really are not meshing with the job you're looking for (or being in). At the extreme, it's not that great of an idea for an at-heart pedophile to be seeking a job as a junior high wrestling coach. Sometimes you need to consider common sense and not to ask for trouble. (Less at the extreme, I don't think it's a bright idea for a school teacher to be playing around on Lit. in any form. One or the other; not both. If both, don't be surprised that parents scream and hollar about that--even while they are tuning into Lit. too.)

And as Penn Lady noted, I don't think it's a really bright idea to be logging into Lit. from work--any work other than the door check in a strip club, unless you're self-employed. It especially amuses me, though, when posters are doing this while slambanging government workers for not being attentive to their jobs and wasting the taxpayers' money.

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

Actually, everyone who knows me knows that I write dirty stories, er, I mean, erotic literature. Even my kids know that Daddy writes dirty stories, sorry, I mean, of course, erotic literature.

I've even told my employers and they've not only asked to read my stories but also have voted on my stories and one of my employers was a woman.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've written. I'm proud of all the stories that I wrote.

I've spent too many years worrying about what other people think of me. I am who I am and I can't change myself now nor do I want to make any changes.

I once had a creative writing professor who hated teaching. He'd rather write than teach. At the expense of losing his tenure, which he did, he went for his Ph D in detective fiction, the first writer to earn a Ph D in that field.

His name was the late, grate Dr. Robert Parker. He wrote all the Spencer for Hire novels with the late, Robert Urich and the and recently Blue Blood with Tom Selleck.

What I liked about him was that he lived his professional life, as well as his private life in the way that he wanted. Never wanting to divorce his wife, she lived on the first floor on his townhouse in Cambridge, Mass and he lived on the second floor and they lived like that for years.

Although I'll never have the fame and fortune that he had, he taught me a lesson to never be ashamed of who you are and what you write.

Dunno, maybe I'd be embarrassed if he knew that I write porn, I mean, erotic litrature.

 

[PayDay]

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've written. I'm proud of all the stories that I wrote.

This is me applauding and agreeing

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

STELLA's our resident expert on assholes.

 

[sr71plt]

This is me applauding and agreeing

And yet, Freddie writes and posts under multiple alts here--each of which, even within the Lit. community, he resisted being outed as having even. You don't find the irony of that delicious?

 

[PayDay]

Just Sayin'

And yet, Freddie writes and posts under muliple alts here--each of which, even within the Lit. community, he resisted being outed as having even. You don't find the irony of that delicious?

Blah, blah, blah, drama, drama.... *yawns*

Fuck it, I'll do it, why not, it'll be lame:

Who cares, it's the Internet. It's mostly shit and drivel to begin with. So why would shit and drivel be surprising, or even deserve a response beyond 'in kind'?

I use two alts, one for reading/voting/drivel/comments and the other as my 'author only' ideas. It's easier to keep the stupidity and the (mild) intelligence separate. I want my writing games or writer's craft to stand alone on itself, I know it can.

Why should I assume or judge anything about the rest of you and your alternates, that are all alternates, compared to who you really are?

I mean, if I can draw the line, and not vote for myself, comment to myself, SPAM myself, or use both alts at once, why couldn't everyone else?
Self Control = FTW, some people just don't have it when they should.

I mean seriously, that was a smart thing to say, even if you don't like the guy, whom I do not know, and have never spoken to. Though irony is quite tasty when it is is season, I don't really see it there. All I saw was a very intelligent, mildly profetic one-liner, and I think such things should be encourage.

Also, sr71plt you shouldn't speak for the Lit community, correct you may be, as the majority are lurkers who want no part of our drivel here, only our writing (yeah, I know I shouldn't also). I say this only because I lurked without any profile or published stories for years and years and years....

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

And yet, Freddie writes and posts under muliple alts here--each of which, even within the Lit. community, he resisted being outed as having even. You don't find the irony of that delicious?

Sorry, Todd, but you're the one still hiding in the closet. You're the one calling yourself a "bi-sexual" man, instead of a gay man. You're the one who writes mostly (80%) gay stories.

Yet, no matter where or what I post, I have you up my ass attacking me. What's you're problem?

Mulitple alts? Outted? I outted myself.

Thank you for allowing me to list my credentials and achievements...again.

Let's see, in 2007 and 2008 I wrote under the name of BostonFictionWriter. I wrote more than 600 stories and nearly 100 poems. I won 2nd place in the Survivor contest in 2007 & 2008. At one time, until the bashers got a hold of me, I had more than 200 red H's and was #24 on the top 250 most popular author list.

My stories, Stripping My Mother-in-law Naked and Sex with my Sister-in-law Samantha amassed 850,000 hits and 650,000 hits respectively in a matter of only 2 months, before I pulled them for publication.

I am the only author voted as the most influential author and poet for 2008. No other author has been nominated for both awards.

In 2009, I wrote under the names of CarBuffStuff, PositiveThinker, and Wmforrester. My story, I Love You, Mommy was the most read story in all of 2010 and presently sits at 129th place on the all time list.

In 2010, I wrote under the name of AndTheEnd and again came in 2nd place in the Survivor's contest.

Presently, for 2011, I write under SuperHeroRalph and am leading the 2011 Survivor contest.

I've written more than 900 stories and 100 poems that amount to more than 6 million words and have amassed nearly 100 million hits.

Okay, Todd, your turn. Who are you and let's hear your credentials, other than you've written more than 40 gay E-books that no one buys and no one reads.

We don't even know your real first name. Oh, I remember. What was it that your mother named you, I forget. Was it Asshole or Cocksucker?

Happy Thanksgiving. May you choke and die.

Ah, I feel better having cleared the air.

 

[Feotakahari]

Count me as another out writer. I've even shown my elderly mother my stories. (She said that Eternal really made her stop and think.)

Then again, I'm definitely on the artsy side of things--I'd like to think the sex in my stories is comparable to the sex in lit-fic (like the oral encounter in The Widows of Eastwick, or the graphic girl-on-chimp in The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore.)

 

[sr71plt]

Also, sr71plt you shouldn't speak for the Lit community, correct you may be, as the majority are lurkers who want no part of our drivel here, only our writing (yeah, I know I shouldn't also). I say this only because I lurked without any profile or published stories for years and years and years....

I wasn't speaking for the Lit. community. It's a fact Freddie uses alts (I didn't make a judgment on doing that. He's the one who was wrapping himself in a flag of self-righteousness on always being so open). He now admits he has used alts and frequently refers to them. It's a fact that he was outed using these alts after denying it for as long as he could hold out. That's a matter of record here, and lots of posters saw it unfold.

I didn't speak for the Lit. community in posting that his "I'm all out there" statement is ironic considering how "in there" he's tried to be. I just said it was ironic . . . and amusing. I didn't speak for the Lit. community; I asked if you too didn't find it amusing and ironic. (In all that garbage you wrote, didn't see an answer to that question.) You certainly don't have too. I find it amusing and ironic enough for both of us.

The rest of the garbage you posted doesn't have anything to do with what I posted, so I won't comment on it.

For Freddie, who whines constantly about his stories being trolled, I have the same advice I've always had. Post them under an alt that is in no way connected with his forum personas. To the extent his stories are actually as good as he says they are, the ratings are then very likely to be good enough to stop his whinings.

My stories are getting heavily trolled under the sr71plt name too. All of the stories under other names have red Hs beside them. If that's all that Freddie is ranting about, he can do the same. Evidently that's not all he's ranting about on the reception of his stories, though.

He obviously is just taken up with the martyr role and can't give that up.

 

[sr71plt]

Mulitple alts? Outted? I outted myself.

That dog don't bark. You know it, I know it. Posters like Mich and TxRad know it. It's enough for me that lots of folks here, including you, know you are lying about it.

It obviously means more to you than anyone else too. That's amusing.

A lot of your litany there is barf too, pardner. It's amusing that you've come to believe such things. You didn't even have 200 stories posted when your stories began to be trolled (I supported you in the argument, remember? No, I didn't think you'd choose to), and you were nominated in the annuals by your own alts. (You did the same thing this year.)

You really create your own alternate world and convince yourself that this barf is true, don't you? Amazing.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

I am a hiring manager

Any of us following the latest job search/hiring trends know that hiring managers are using every assest (asset) at thier (their) disposal to weed out potental (potential) misfits and profit draining dopes from thier (their) hiring pool. This only makes sense as we are in a recession and no one should be wasting money on mistakes.
My concern is being discovered. I'm an entry level worker, a twenty seven (twenty-seven) year old college graduate to be exact with a BA. in a liberal arts field. Teaching never suited me, so now I'm diving into the corperate (corporate) world. Meanwhile, I'm indulging and looking share my two favorite hobbies, writing and porn. The problem, of course, is not being linked to those hobbies.
My question is to hiring managers (I know you guys and girls are here, too) and to those of you are are far more savy (savvy) at internet (Internet) identity protection then (than) I.
How does one truely (truly) remain anonomys (anonymous) on sites like Literotica?
Furthermore, how does one remain anonomys (anonymous) on the net ('net) in general?
What kinds of methods do hiring managers use to search for employees?

Wishing all the Best

Okay, Matt - I AM a hiring manager in real life. And I DO check people out online before we hire them. We also do a criminal and credit background check on people, too. I don't agree with everything that goes into making a hire, but it's not my company, so I let the owner run it the way he wants to. I think he misses out on some great hires from time to time, but whatever.

First and foremost - you're both a college graduate and a wanna-be writer? PLEASE LEARN THE MAGIC OF SPELL CHECK!!!! Seriously, dude. I mean, I respect this is just a discussion board forum, but it's also the "Author's Hangout" at a site that calls itself Literotica. I don't mean to be a bitch about things (no offense to those who truly ARE bitches), but man-oh-man!

The Unibomber was caught because of his writing style.

You give yourself a pseudonym. You give yourself a separate email account. You keep real world Matt far removed from imaginary world Matt and you take your lumps about wanting to brag to your friends, family, whomever about "Hey, my story got accepted at Literotica.com!"

Personally, I maintain seven different email addresses. There's my "public" one that friends and family get and that I use for my online business (like bill paying and crap). Then there's the one that's associated with this site and all other things shady, erotic, secret, or underhanded. I have two other accounts that I use when I have to sign up for a web page and just KNOW I'm going to get spammed out the ass for the privilege of membership. There's a separate account for my PS3, because that's hooked up to my TV and my kids sometimes use it and I don't need them getting into my crap. And I have two work email accounts.

People hate being partitioned or segmented and claim to feel schizophrenic doing all that. Me? I call it being "organized" or even "playing it safe." I know who I am.

Whatever... most of this thread has turned into another circle-jerk, name calling, bitch-fest.