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People lying about other contributors

May 08, 2026 03:39AM
I recently had a post about my worst-ever mystery shop, where I wanted to get a handle as to how bad it was compared to what others had experienced, and a forum member then lied about it, by falsely claiming that I'd written that kind of thing multiple times, including the day before, falsely claiming that I do it all of the time, that I am over-dramatic, and that I need to calm down a bit.

Now, that comment got 3 likes from other forum members, but the big problem is that it was completely false.

Most forums I go to ban people for lying about other forum members in order to get a run-on of hate against them, so I am wondering what the policy is here. The person who lied about me not only didn't retract it but added a further lie by falsely claiming that I had edited other posts to say that.

I hadn't.

My edits were to try to remove anything that might identify me or the specifics of the mystery shopping company or where I shopped.

So why wasn't something done about this lying?

I wasn't just lied about - I was then told that something I hadn't done was horrible - and then 3 people liked it.

Shouldn't that warrant something being done to stop it?

What are the policies on this forum about such behaviour and why wasn't anything done about it?
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May 08, 2026 04:01AM
Sorry there was some bug and this posted multiple times.
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May 09, 2026 11:56PM
Oz--please re-read Sandy's post. She did not say what you are claiming. Be careful when you accuse someone of lying when the same thing can be said about you.
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May 10, 2026 01:35AM
This is the internet. People will be friendly, and people will be horrible. Don't let it get to you. Mystery Shopping is much like this - things will delight and horrify you all at the same time. Just keep moving forward. Stewing in the moments that you dont love will neither serve your time well here, or out in the field.
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May 10, 2026 03:28AM
@Nikki21 wrote:

Oz--please re-read Sandy's post. She did not say what you are claiming. Be careful when you accuse someone of lying when the same thing can be said about you.

Liar.
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May 10, 2026 03:29AM
@Cassiespark wrote:

This is the internet. People will be friendly, and people will be horrible. Don't let it get to you. Mystery Shopping is much like this - things will delight and horrify you all at the same time. Just keep moving forward. Stewing in the moments that you dont love will neither serve your time well here, or out in the field.

This forum has shown a desire to protect the guilty and allow and encourage blatant lies and bullying while people try to find out my real life identity. This is not a safe forum, and the other response to this post proves that this forum has some major, major problems.
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