Quote Originally Posted by icey View Post
the poor guy!

tojo has a good point there one i never would have thought of, going back through peoples posts if your meeting someone from a forum.

sure people often do present themselves differently on the net but they also often slip up its hard i would imagine to keep a certain persona up after a length of time as he said its not infallible and you'd need to go by more than just posts alone and take as many precautions as possible, but its a starting point and could give some valuable insight.
I have done this many times, reading through another's post to check them out - harder when they don't post a lot though lol

On AFF, there are many groups a person can belong to so it's not hard to quickly see what they are truly interested if you only take the time to read