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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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The History of Faking
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| After the explosion of The Newsgroups in the mid 1990's the next big thing to hit online fakery was the "groups", mainly from MSN and Yahoo!. These groups started to make big impressions in the late 1990's after the two groups from Yahoo, "clubs" and "groups" merged into one super community. With this change and the MSN groups also becoming popular as communities it was a natural route for the fakirs to create their own communities there.
The groups made it easy for fakirs who had no experience with HTML to found a community. The fakirs could post their fakes and the owners could regulate their members without any problems giving the fakirs and collectors the opportunity to get together for the first time. With these groups also came traded links which was not done often on newsgroups. With this new feature it gave fakirs and collectors the opportunity to go to all fakes groups, bringing with it bigger competition for active fakirs and bigger communities.
At the height of these groups strength there was as many as 300 Yahoo groups and just as many MSN groups. Most were run by collectors who traded fakes but many were also run as active fakirs communities by fakirs themselves. One of these groups (and perhaps one of the biggest Yahoo groups) was Astons group. Aston was a British fakir who started his own fake group as a place to post his own fakes and give other fakirs the opportunity to post theirs.
One of the larger groups on MSN was The Charlatans group. Once again he was British and started the group to get fakirs and celebrity fake fans together. One of the biggest draws for these groups after the initial ease of set-up was their sense of community. Before the groups came along it was only newsgroups where there was zero sense of community. The groups gave the fakirs a place to meet, discuss fakes, faking secrets and essentially laid the ground work for future faking communities.
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Fakir or Faker?
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 Dictionary.com has the meanings as... Faker: a person who makes deceitful pretenses Fakir: a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man The problem with the words is that both mean something else unrelated to faking and have been in use for those meanings a lot longer than the faking community has existed. The word Fakir according to dictionary.com originally meaning a kind of Arab holy man and faker meaning several things from a fraudster to a counterfeiter, and just about everything in between.
But as this is the on-line world it is what the word means on-line that matters most. On-line the word "fakir" has no major meaning, but on the other hand the word "faker" is commonly known as a description of, once again, a fraudster. This is not a good tag for the faking community, especially since the word is often used to describe a male who pretends to be a child or a woman in on-line chat rooms. In a community that relies on itself to self govern and keep everyone within the law, this could bring negative press and result in stronger laws which could wipe the community of the face of the net. This may have had a major part in steering the faking community towards using the term "fakir".
Another reason for the preference towards 'Fakir' maybe that a former fakir called himself 'Faker' (2000-2002).
While the argument is still open and both terms are still readily used the word "fakir" is used mainly by the fakirs themselves, especially the experienced or older fakirs. whereas the word "faker" is mostly used by newbie's, non fakirs or by fakirs in commercial and self advertising purposes. However with the other meanings of the word 'faker' on-line it may yet to be seen to be an unwise advertising policy.
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