Posted by Buzzman72 on May 12, 2013 at 05:48:34 from (74.133.161.78):
In Reply to: Hey JD Seller posted by Rusted nuts on May 10, 2013 at 18:49:45:
Rusted, before you came along at Tales, there was a guy who posted as Indiana Dirt Farmer, or IDF. IDF was a teller of tales, for sure, but most on the forum liked him. Apparently he lived in Louisville, KY and worked at a country club, but he farmed family acreage in both Grayson County, KY and Clark County, IN.
Apparently, IDF had a dispute with someone on the forum, and had someone post that he had died. Forum members were at a loss, and were about to set up a memorial page for him. I live only 25 miles from Louisville, so I wanted to send some flowers to the funeral home. I also subscribed to the Louisville newspaper, and there was no obituary in the paper. So I called the country club where he worked, to see if they'd tell me where to send flowers.
Imagine my surprise when the receptionist told me he had gone to lunch, but that she'd spoken to him when he came to work that very morning. About the same time, one of the others who HAD been friends with IDF on the forum discovered that, a day or two after his alleged "death," he was posting on other forums...just not on the YT forums. We had considered this man a friend, and he'd tried to pull the wool over our eyes in the very worst way.
Since then, a lot of the folks on these forums are leery of the info folks post here. On Tales, the term was coined: IDF'n. If you're IDF'n, there is little or no truth in what you're posting.
Some folks have commented elsewhere on the forums that JDSeller may have been a "resurrected" IDF. So that might explain why someone would have gone all "Dick Tracy" on his truck wreck story. But then again, expecting 100% anonymity in this internet age may be expecting too much. [There are some on these forums who know exactly who I am, because of me posting about my family's farm equipment business from years past...that doesn't bother me, because I've met them, and we get along just fine.] Was it wrong to try to verify JDSeller's story? I don't think so, after the IDF incident. Was it wrong to post his personal information all over the internet? Very much so, in my opinion. And to me, THAT is where the line was crossed.
But then, I didn't see all the posts in the thread before it was nuked; lines may have been crossed even before that, and maybe I just didn't see it.
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