Is the primitives’ fear of moles on Skins’s island justified?
Of course there’s moles among the primitives, just as there’s moles probably everywhere else in the world, in probably all human interaction, surreptitiously burrowing into things.
Before I go any further, I have to explain something; there’s a difference between a “troll†and a “mole.â€
Nobody on any side of the aisle cares for trolls, who exist merely to disrupt, to cause trouble.
Moles however are a different sort of thing; they merely wish to blend in, causing no disturbance at all, and gain whatever they can from what they see while looking around.
I dunno how many presences franksolich has had on Skins’s island, since circa mid-2002 (my presence before then was as a troll, never a mole, but as a troll I proved abysmal, and so gave it up); surely more than a dozen and a half over the years, many of whom did not last long.
Somewhere along the way, I finally got the idea; franksolich’s talents lay in being a mole, not a troll.
My longest-surviving mole is from the time poor stupid Beth ran her really stupid scam, and a bona fide long-time member of Skins’s island, disgusted with the whole bit, the way Beth was making Skins’s island the laughingstock of the internet, handed over its high post-count persona to me, and I assume (without knowing for sure), going on to create a new presence for itself.
There’s a couple, three, four, other moles facading franksolich, but they’re much newer and far less active; in fact, at the risk of giving too much information, none of them has been around Skins’s island since last summer.
Moling is high-stress, causing much convulsion and gastric discombobulation, and I’ve always been nervous, on edge, when doing it. When one’s on hostile terrain, one becomes very conservative, very cautious, being careful to stay within sharply-limited boundaries so as to not cause suspicion.
I’ve always moled from a computer not this one, and from places with different internet service providers than my own. And so as to not excite interest, I’ve never used any of the features of Skins’s island, such as “search†or looking up a member. And the mole stays away from the cooking and baking forum, and avoids the closed meta forum as much as possible, so that back out here in real life, I don’t unwittingly betray that I’ve been moling. Also, any mole I use tends to shun primitives prominently featured here in the DUmpster.
The sparkling old dude or Atman, for example, wouldn’t know franksolich’s mole from Adam, because franksolich’s mole assiduously avoids them when on Skins’s island. But again, at the risk of giving too much information, a long time ago, the mineral oil primitive, Mineral Man, almost nabbed my prize mole, but it pleased God that I narrowly escaped the snare.
The last thing a mole wants is attention; there was one time a couple of years (or more) ago that my mole posted what seemed to me a fairly innocuous, even boring, topic, about abortion. But for reasons still unfigured-out by me, the campfire attracted a lot of attention, the primitives rolling and writhing in frenzied ecstasy, in unfettered joy and moaning orgasm.
Ooops. After that, I sharply pulled in the reins.
franksolich’s moles exist simply for the purpose of gathering information, collecting data, on the primitives, much as a professional anthropologist observes hidden behind the bushes.
And as such, I think the primitives’ paranoia about moles is exaggerated, out of line. Most moles are just quietly minding their own business, causing no trouble at all. I fail to see why the primitives are so worried.
