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* It is sometimes recommended that a good way to test a forum or internet community is to join, post a deliberately flawed (though ''not'' to the extent of trolling) and controversial argument and judge whether or not to continue your membership from the responses - if people are dismissive and unpleasant, rather than polite and reasonable, don't stay in.
** Note that this is an easy way to annoy the regulars of said community. If the group has been in existence for any length of time, simply reading the existing posts will give you just as accurate a picture of how polite the regulars are.
* Many of [[Stephen King]]'s novels (including ''[[The Running Man]]'' and ''[[Rage]]'') were originally published under the pseudonym "Richard Bachman", King going so far as to use a photograph of his insurance agent as the author photo of the book jackets. King did this to eliminate author name recognition to determine whether his books could be successful via talent alone. Fans and critics were able to uncover the ruse relatively quickly, as his unique writing style was recognized, so one could say he succeeded.
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