Geno, no offense (and I generally respect all of what you had to say in your various posts), but this is the third or fourth time I've noticed you put up a posting saying that you suspect that an original poster is fake. If I recall correctly, one of those times happened to be in a thread that I myself started (and I'm obviously not fake).

The result each time this has happened, has been that the thread is taken less seriously and people feel less willing to post. This is even when some very serious issues of concern to anyone who cares about this city are being discussed such as the causes of urban violence.

I personally don't think that a person from China using the user name "Chandler Bing" is suspicious. In fact, "Friends" *is* big in China as it is elsewhere in the world. Is the use of "Chandler Bing" any more suspicious that other people's user names??? Also, the frequency of that person posting is also not a clue as to whether that person is fake or not. In this case, the purported original poster is living in China which means that, by the time he/she logs in again, he/she would have seen that 100 or more posts have been made since heshe last logged on. Whatever questions he/she may have had would have been answered and thus there would have been no need to make a follow-up post. Would it have been proper netiquette to have made a "thanks for all your responses" post? Perhaps, but consider that he/she might not have as easy of an access to the internet as we here in the US do. He/she may have been posting from an internet cafe, which is quite likely.

In any event, I looked up "Chandler Bing" in the PhillyBlog archives and he/she has started another thread askign what "mpennsky" meant. In that thread, he/she also noted that he/she was living in China and not used to "Philly expressions" (not knowing that that was another users name). This hardly sounds like a flame-starting post. Further, that post was also on May 9 (same day as the post that started this thread) and just a little over a day and a half ago. So it is very plausible that this poster first started posting on PB on 5/9 and hasn't logged in since (it's only May 11).

All that said, I do want to note that I think much of what you (Geno) has had to say on various sisues on PB has been very respectable and I enjoy reading your posts. But please be less suspicious of some of the newer users who post stuff here. I do think that you have a tendency to yell "fire" a little too soon on these things.