A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns Posts in the discussion thread "A Fat Ghost returns?" Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:08:53 +0000 http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2015010 Re: just for clarification: http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2015010 Sat, 19 Apr 2014 01:14:32 +0000 thedeadlymoose 732274 So's you know, when I confronted him, he claimed to be a real-life friend of yours named Travis. Have logs if you want 'em.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2014414 Re: just for clarification: http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2014414 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 01:22:55 +0000 Eskobar 1173523 Do you know, the whole time this guy was talking, all I kept thinking was "AFG never used fucking capitalization. What the fuck is this guy playing at."

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2014394 Re: just for clarification: http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2014394 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:07:58 +0000 Dexanote 481882 Alright, threads over.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2014388 just for clarification: http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2014388 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:35:36 +0000 A Fat Ghost 173799 the fellow in question here was definitely not me.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008290 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008290 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:05:26 +0000 TroyL 451071 A few minutes later:

*NSA (ten.labolgcbs.acnvri.deepsthgil.21BBB5BA-CRInys|tibbiM#ten.labolgcbs.acnvri.deepsthgil.21BBB5BA-CRInys|tibbiM) has joined #site17
<NSA> Testing…123
<NSA> Testing
<+ProcyonLotor> Yeah.
<+ProcyonLotor> We don't believe you're the NSA.
<NSA> Hello!
<+ProcyonLotor> Hello there.
<NSA> Are you folks chill with novelty accounts?
<&TroyL> Ehh… Not really, mate.
<+ProcyonLotor> Well, we really don't do roleplaying of any sort.
<+ProcyonLotor> So you won't have much more novelty beyond a goofy name
<NSA> No, no no.
<NSA> I act like how I do normally.
<NSA> I just have parody of a name.
*TroyL sets mode: +b *!*@synIRC-AB5BBB12.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net
<+ProcyonLotor> Also welcome back, FG2.
*NSA was kicked by TroyL (Later, FakeGhost. We hardly knew ye.)

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008289 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008289 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:02:10 +0000 Quikngruvn 333389 I posted this over in his intro thread, which had already been locked:

Admin Post (Locked)

For the sake of anyone who sees this thread months and years from now going huh?: this user has admitted to not being the real A Fat Ghost and has been summarily banned for impersonating another user. File this under Too Good To Be True.

'Cos otherwise, people are gonna stumble on that thread and wonder what the hell happened.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008288 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008288 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:00:04 +0000 TroyL 451071 Alternate titles to this thread, as determined by Troy's Rangers:

  • A_Fat_Fake?
  • A_Fake_Ghost?
  • A_Skinny_Specter_V2
  • GhostInAFatSuit
  • Not_Enough_Pot_References/Too_Many_Sons.

Thanks, all who supplied suggestions.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008276 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008276 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 02:35:03 +0000 thedeadlymoose 732274 The user has admitted to being an impostor, after being confronted in chat and failing to verify… well, anything. I've banned them from #site19:

[18:38] =-= Mode #site19 +b *!*@synIRC-AB5BBB12.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net by thedeadlymoose
[18:39] =-= Fat_Ghost_V2 was booted from #site19 by YOU (Out.)

I believe Mann has banned them from the wiki or is in the process of doing so.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008224 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008224 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:20:33 +0000 Photosynthetic 361873 If he fails to verify the identity he's claiming (and at this point, I do not expect him to manage it), then we'd probably want to ban him for impersonating another user. At very least, I'd want to revoke his membership and not let him back in until he changed his username to something that wouldn't be an outright lie.

(To be clear, I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt… but he's really, really not helping his case.)

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008203 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008203 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:57:26 +0000 CryogenChaos 251810 This in particular infuriates me, because he asked me if translating one of "his" articles to French would help prove his identity (being French-Canadian and all). I told him that while it might not necessarily 100% convince everyone, it'd be a good place to start (and a wonderful help in general).

If the French fucking wiki is telling you that you obviously used Google Translate (and a shoddy translation at that), then all you've done is wasted your time, their time, and our time, and honestly made me look like a fucking fool for believing A Fat Ghost was back.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008184 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008184 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:33:39 +0000 thedeadlymoose 732274 We have other potential avenues for verification (see: IRC discussion) and are waiting on those.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008177 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008177 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:26:19 +0000 Zyn 1404533 For the record, here's a thread from the French SCP branch: http://fondationscp.wikidot.com/forum/t-841098/scp-168-en-francaise-sensible-calculatrice

Pretty much all the comments mention Google translate.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008164 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008164 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:13:57 +0000 1324229 Yeah, this seems kind of BS-y.

So, assuming he's probably not FG, is there anything we want to do, given that proving that he isn't would be pretty difficult? Besides maybe telling him to knock it off?
Okay, they admitted it…

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008158 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008158 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:05:20 +0000 AdminBright 224440 Very reluctant to believe.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008127 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008127 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 22:31:02 +0000 Drewbear 301632 …
okay, admittedly I've never had to try to recover my login info from wikidot, but doesn't every website in existence have password reset info on the login page? And if he can't get into whatever email account was associated with it, then well he's shit outta luck on recovering it, ain't he?

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008124 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008124 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 22:27:06 +0000 thedeadlymoose 732274 Received the following PM:

From: AFatGhostV2
Subject: Account recovery.
Date: 5 Apr 2014, 01:09
To: thedeadlymoose

Hello, son. Do some complications w/ my personal life, I have lost access to my original account. Could you advise me on how to recovery my old account and salvage my former moderator status?

Presently waiting to hear more from other staff (who actually knew Ghost) before responding.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008092 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008092 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:49:04 +0000 RJB_R 1229263 A note - Fat Ghost was french-canadian, afaik. DrMarcus of the French branch has informed me that AFGv2 has posted an incompetently translated article there, and was concerned he might be a troll.

I think this guy is clearly lying. I really wanted to believe him, but after the "wow fat ghost!!!" wore off, his story didn't add up.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008086 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008086 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:38:14 +0000 Drewbear 301632 PM from Kalinin:

Just another piece of info to consider in this discussion. The person claiming to be fat ghost asked me in [chat] if I was Kain, which seems like a really weird question to ask for someone who supposedly was involved with all of the admin-types in the early days of the wiki.

FWIW this dude comes off as trying extremely hard and I don't particularly buy that they're who they say they are. Which, you know, whatever, except someone in his "welcome back" thread asked if he was going to resume mod duties, which as you've probably discussed seems like a bad idea.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2008027 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2008027 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:12:25 +0000 Eskobar 1173523 Several of us have spoken to this iteration of AFG in chat; he's repeatedly asked nearly every member of staff in chat to "vouch for his authenticity, son", along with accusations that Mann has been "asking for pics and gaslighting" him. His evidence that he's presented consists mostly of mentioning various things that Ghost did that are public knowledge or part of the 05 record for him, plus some stories that he derived from conversations he had with people since coming back that he wouldn't necessarily have had to have information about previously to then discuss later.1

Footnotes
]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2007991 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2007991 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:25:51 +0000 Photosynthetic 361873 I'm really skeptical. This guy doesn't really write like AFG at all — he writes like someone trying to imitate AFG without any particular understanding of his actual style. I'm gonna need a little more evidence.

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2007976 Re: A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2007976 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:09:26 +0000 Accelerando 1599414 Is there some way that someone could get in contact to talk to him, like on chat or something? In fact, has he appeared in chat since he came back? Considering he was a chat admin and all?

]]> http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521#post-2007862 A Fat Ghost returns? http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-841521/a-fat-ghost-returns#post-2007862 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:14:21 +0000 Drewbear 301632 http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-839976/a-fat-ghost

So this guy shows up claiming to be A Fat Ghost, returning under a different username because he "lost access" to his original account. When asked about that, he was evasive and has, in my opinion, been kind of over-the-top about his fat-ghost-ness. I'm not saying that he's someone spoofing Ghost, but I'm not ready to take him at his word yet either. Let's keep an eye on this'un until we can get more concrete confirmation that he is who he says he is.

Edit: In fact, almost everything this guy is saying/doing can be traced right back to the old blurb that Ghost had on the Staff List when he was active:

Our laid back friend from the wilds of Canadia. Tends to use the term 'son' a lot, so don't get offended. Our resident Metric God. Use Metric, or he shall smite thee mightily with the Hiker. Very mellow, eh? Also one of our chat admins. He's one of the guys to go to if you want help with an SCP idea; he's both very friendly, and knows what the hell he's talking about.

Again, this could be because he actually is Ghost, but I'm suspicious.

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