I agree with you Lynn. I believe it creates an increasing sense of mistrust on the forum between members and treats posters and the forum as a stage show. They may find it highly amusing, since it's "us" that have been taken for the ride.....but I wonder how they'd react if they had been on the end of it?

I'm sorry too that a poster private messaged "Alia" taking the person at face value and considering them sincere, when they were simply being taken in also.

No it doesn't solve anything, it just creates further chaos in my opinion.