posting on ILX under fake names

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do you ever do it? why? when is it legit? & stuff

― duane (doorag), Friday, 8 November 2002 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

for me its self selected distance

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 8 November 2002 05:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i have made up a joke name once or twice, although they probably weren't very funny. i don't care if people do it, although sometimes i wish people would just stick to one so it's less confusing.

― ron (ron), Friday, 8 November 2002 05:14 (twenty-three years ago)

No problems unless you do it so you can wage personal attacks on people without having to suffer the consequences (I'm looking at you Bill Laimbeer!)

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 8 November 2002 05:16 (twenty-three years ago)

but i never told anyone my name...

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 8 November 2002 05:20 (twenty-three years ago)

hahaha i have HUNDREDS of fake names and post all sorts of absolute shyte all the time under them.
im lying, actually. i only have me, and am naive ( i prefer to call it genuine ) enough to post away under my real name, so i guess i am a sitting duck for anyone wanting to take advantage of that :-(
now that ive said that i will have to change my name! bugger.

― donna (donna), Friday, 8 November 2002 05:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Anonymittyville Horror

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 8 November 2002 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey those were the days. My second-last post in that is great though!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 8 November 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Only when it's a birthday, and some band or another wants to send a greeting.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 8 November 2002 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

THAT WAS YOU???

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 8 November 2002 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

NOT ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 8 November 2002 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Dirty Vicar is not my real name. I use this one so the cockfarmers I work with can't google me.

I think I may have posted under other names once or twice, for the purposes of humour rather than cockfarming.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

no. i don't because i don't see the need and i know i won't be googled and anyway the fact is i don't have anything to hide.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this thread was about posting under a multitude of names, rather than having a 'fake' name? I mean jel could be considered a fake name, I always read it as J E L, being my intials, but it got read as Jel, and the name sorta stuck.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:37 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not necessarily about having stuff to hide, it's also about not wanting people to know too much.

If you collated all my posts to ILX then you would have more information about me than any one person in the world has (other than myself).

I don't want anyone to know that much about me. I would find it threatening and invasive. It would make me less 'precious' to myself. It would be desecration. It would be similar to someone being able to read my mind.

One of the reasons I'm all right about revealing this much information, bit by bit, over a long period of time, is that I know that no-one who frequents ILX regularly is going to catalogue all this information in their minds and create a clear picture of who I am.

Even if someone reads every thread (like it appears some people do!) it is very hard to keep track of everything that someone has said and all their behaviour.

There are some people on ILX with whom it is easy to feel that you know them very well - Ned for example - but this isn't because they reveal much at all. It is because they are so consistant (NB this does not mean they are predictable).

― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, what Jel said.

Not using the name on your birth certificate is one thing (and totally understandable). Posting under a multitude of names is another. I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with the latter either though. It's only when you use it to to hide behind attacks on people or for being a lame-assed troll that it's shit. I keep toying with the idea of a female persona to m.a.n.i.p.u.l.a.t.e you all.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I just use a different name to prevent googling, but I've never posted under any name other than this.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I decided to use my real name / regular email address because I thought it might be quite a good way to enforce some self-discipline: I don't post anything here which I wouldn't want a googler to see. (If that makes me 'bland' then that's OK by me because I'm not someone to judge myself on how I come across on an internet message board).

The downside of this = truckload o'spam.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Ditto what Madchen said.

Surely most of you know each other's writing styles so well that you can guess who an anonymous poster is half the time? Can't you?

― C J (C J), Friday, 8 November 2002 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

cj- that's definetely the case with marcello.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 8 November 2002 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I've used 3 names I think! But not at the same time, and more to amuse myself than to experiment with persona or whatever - they are always pretty transparently me, I think. And they are mostly thought up when I come back to ILx after some time away, like Dr Who regenerating every few series or so. Plus, I like opening my yahoo mail and being greeted with "Welcome back, Edna!".

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 8 November 2002 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

using this email address, which is my real and only email address is good, but also has its downsides, i regret letting myself getting emneshed in peoples games on a thread recently, particularly because people could google my email and find all that gubbins yesterday, which would be pretty depressing ("hey gareth, i saw you on the web, why are you talking with complete mentalists", "um...")

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 8 November 2002 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

i've got the same policy as tim and gareth. i've occasionally thought of posting anonymously to say something that would include giving information about a third party, but decided that if i have to think about it then it would be better not to give the information at all.

― angela (angela), Friday, 8 November 2002 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I use one other name on ILX for jokey posts, teasing, opinions I'm not particularly confident or proud of, and to avoid looking too much like a sad obsessive on some threads. None of those are very good reasons, I'll admit. I should probably stop doing it.

(rhetorical aside: I have been reading the Denise Lambert and related threads, and thought it best to stay well out of them. Why is it always in November that Marcello decides it's time for a big row on ILE? He did exactly the same thing this time last year.)

― Jeff W, Friday, 8 November 2002 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

November always spawns a monster.

It is a miserable month.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 8 November 2002 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I always took offence to that line, being born in November and all - but then November is lovely, hot, spring time here - Monsters would be more likely to be spawned in May or June.

― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 8 November 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew you were going to say that, N. (I almost said it myself)

― Jeff W, Friday, 8 November 2002 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey - lay off November! It's my birthday month too, and I am miffed by the comparison with a miserable monster.

― C J (C J), Friday, 8 November 2002 12:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I like November, coz December is next and that means Christmas! yay!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 8 November 2002 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

and as mark s says one day the great x-mas shutdown will last at least two months!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 8 November 2002 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

does already!

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

really???

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

[redacted] only posts under the name [redacted o the irony]. I've often toyed with the idea of creating an alter-ego, and having some fun with it, but it can annoy me sometimes when other people do it, so I never bother.

It can annoy me, cos I'll get sucked into a compelling argument, and I'll be getting increasingly passionate. Then someone will say "Oh, this is obviously so-and-so posing as someone else to aggravate people" and it feels like I've invested passion in a big joke at my expense. It can be quite embarrassing. I haven't been here that long, so it's hard for me to pick up on it when someone's playing a role, whereas some of you can spot it in a second.

Having said that, some threads where an alter-ego makes some obnoxious remarks to put the cat amongst the pigeons, can be very funny and absorbing. Small doses, I suppose.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I stick to a single address here for spam avoidance and think multiple aliases lead to trouble.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I've never posted as anything else.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's see... I post as N., gareth, Graham, jel, suzy, C J, um... who else?? hmm....

No, I just post under my cute lil' pseudonym. And I post a hell of a lot under my own name so I think it's kind of obvious I don't have time to use other names too. I mean that would be crazy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I have posted a couple of times anonymously when I wanted to say something specific or get advice. That's about it, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 November 2002 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm probably naive as i've yet to have a disturbing online experience. please don't try to provide me with one

― ron (ron), Friday, 8 November 2002 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I've done it a couple of times but only when posting sensitive personal stuff, coz even though you don't know my real name I didn't want my internet persona to be associated with the posts, which thinking about it is a bit wierd...

― Plinky (Plinky), Friday, 8 November 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always been a bit dubious on why people do this. I've been a member of some forums where its all gone out of control and people start going on about ip addresses blah blah. just hate everywhere.
i don't see a need to do it personally

(oh yeah, November is my birthday month too. today in fact)
(just looking for a reason to let that one out !!)

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 8 November 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I only posted anonymously once and that was solely due to job paranoia.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 November 2002 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I would never!

― Sarah McLusty (nabisco), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

keep "plinky" pure!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

You found out my real pornstar name!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to post on old ILX as Aaron G!, but it seemed weird for me personally to try to be anonymous. I treat ILx as being a nice conversation, so I don't feel the need to hide anything. I understand those that may want, for whatever reason, to not divulge their real or full names.
I also figured that there might be other Aarons with last name starting with G, who might post under a similar name as mine. to ensure that there was no confusion, i just switched to my full name.

My birthday is also in November, actually, in a few days. It is one of my favorite months. Winter is my favorite season, but only the early portion when the snow is fresh and the world feels cozy.

In general, I think using a fake name for the sole purpose of attacking others is not very honorable. I don;t imagine ILx as this perfect society where we all get along, and I don;t think ILx should function that way. But whatever disagreements we may have should ideally be conducted in a manner consistent with the general level of respect that informs most interactions here.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I would never do that. I think it's disgusting. Filthy shambles.

― Your bloody Nana, Friday, 8 November 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry that was my Nana everyone.

― Maryann Raskalnikov Pechorin Magwich, Friday, 8 November 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Duane emailed me to tell me he was going to write this thread AS IF TO IMPLY it specifically related to me! In some way! But I can reassure him that I have only posted under fake names about ten times, and those posts are easily recognisable by their incredible facility with language and command of grammar, not to mention their almost too-subtle wit, and that I reserve my 'inane,' 'immature' persona for my real-life name, in order to prevent personal attacks resulting from other posters being driven mad with jealousy. And heaps of other really clever stuff ps I am Josh and that's why he's the only one who notices me.

― maryann, Friday, 8 November 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I have only posted anon-like when referring to real-life events where people not from here have fucked me over & I want to vent w/o it being googlable b/c I sometimes have/have had to deal with peole who are M0TH3RFuX!NG SK4NKZ. I try to make it obvious it's me in such cases.

― N0RM4N PH4Y, Friday, 8 November 2002 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I am going to change my ILX name since it now appears that people are confusing me with Chaki. Not that there's anything wrong with Chaki, it's just that I'm not him. I'm me.

― someone who's not "ch.", or "chzza (synkro), Friday, 8 November 2002 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

hey what are you sayin *I* can't tell when it's you, i can! clue everyone : look for phrases like "tall graceful idiots"

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 8 November 2002 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Rubbish, Maryann, we all love you.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 8 November 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

maryann i notice when you aren't here

also the woman in angel pret a manger who looks like you isn't there any more

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 8 November 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I have posted under different names for the purposes of bad jokes, but never about anything serious. The contraction of my real name was more to do with being more widely known as RickyT than Richard Tunnicliffe on this modern interweb of ours than anything else.

― RickyT (RickyT), Saturday, 9 November 2002 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i am a dishonourable person. ever since being caught out saying something really drunken and stupid to felicity i have decided that even if i post under a fake name i will only post nice things. i will stick to this cos i am no longer a drunk. i have posted anonymously a lot.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 9 November 2002 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(mostly for TMI reasons)

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 9 November 2002 07:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never, ever, ever used my real (i.e. birth) name on the internet. More to do with wanting to be distanced from my family than any desire to be anonymous, as I'm probably more well known by my "stage" name than by my "real" one. Started using "masonic boom" as a screen name for a double layer of real life protection, but now that's probably just as well known as the stage name.

I have posted under fake name- not just to this forum, but to others- to prove a point. Also, for real life reasons which were clearly detailed in the Ugly Wife thread. Usually I get away with it, except in rare cases where I've outed myself. Part of the thrill is the secret desire that you could get caught out. So when you don't, it kind of takes the fun out of it. Hence why I haven't done it in a long time.

― kate st.class, Saturday, 9 November 2002 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I have posted here under another name exactly five times, all well over a year ago, but never for any reason other than I got confused about who I was as I use a different name for my blog etc.

I have considered posting some stuff anonymously when I feel that what I have to say would be really constructive in the discussion at hand but is something I would rather keep private.

Then I've decided than anonymous posts carry so little weight compared with posts with a person behind them that the price of going through the trauma of dredging up the private stuff would way outweigh the benefit of what I had to say. So I don't do it.

― toraneko (toraneko), Saturday, 9 November 2002 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Toraneko - you have a blog??

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll never tell......

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Toraneko - you have a blog??

She mentioned it to us at the dinner on the Sunday meetup after you left, Tim! But she says she keeps it totally secret, and I like that. It's like a diary that anyone in the world could read, but that nobody will be able to find. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never used any name but my own. I get a bit impatient with people using names other than their usual ones (whether that's a pseudonym or not), except when discussing intimate and private matters. I really like Marcello, but the way he uses other IDs is sometimes annoying, but in general terms they are often used to insult people, to 'provoke' in worthless ways and many carry an implicit assumption that the poster is outsmarting everyone else, and manipulating everyone in ways that show the poster is cleverer than the rest. Dud.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I have done so in order to ask a question: here, here, here, here, etc.

And to make wild assertions: "false_crux" here, "holly" here

Before I used this name (which is not my real one, either), I was "ng" and "harman" in the same thread and both "gabe" and "stati" on a later one.

Here I used a real but alternate e-mail ("vmegal...").

I think "yente" (here) was the last name I used other than this.

― kieran, Friday, 13 February 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Now more than ever, Martin is surely OTM.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 February 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i do it, but only to wind up colin

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 13 February 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Denise Lambert in person

Reading this has been a harrowing and terrible experience which I don't think i'll recover from.

― NRQ (Enrique), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Totally dud. What you so scared off eh? Use your real name.

― Nutty Nigel (Nutty Nigel), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Go fuck yourself, c*lum r*bert.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

W*ddell

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22C*lum+Waddell%22&sa=N&tab=gw [mod note: This link has been edited.]

― NETTY NIGEL (Aaron W), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Seeing him contributing a review to a Mormon-owned newspaper is bemusing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

In case it is being suggested that I'm Calum, the first two of these results are relevant.

I don't even use my original name anymore.

― kieran, Friday, 13 February 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I did it as a joke a few times. It was only funny about once or twice.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

What is a fake name?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

http://www.remember.org/mydc/buzza2.jpg

― buzza, Sunday, 2 January 2011 04:56 (fifteen years ago)

DDs, eh

― scrag bloc bologna (haitch), Sunday, 2 January 2011 05:53 (fifteen years ago)

if i have to die i would like to be suffocated by 38DDs

― jerginho

― buzza, Sunday, 2 January 2011 06:52 (fifteen years ago)

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