I was completely wrong as to who the person was!

Anyway, I am vaguely discomfitted by it, but mostly because I don't want to see it getting out of hand. So far, everyone has been pretty funny.

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Sorry, I said I wouldn't post as this again, but I'm not going to reactivate my other account to answer a question.

why not post as Cindy.

I had ita close my Cindy account back around the first of the year. I don't want to reopen it, right now. Right now, I'm here because Angel is ending and Wonderfalls is beginning. I don't like using the Xanderella id here--Xanderella belongs to the Bronze. I mentioned my intention to use a lurkers-support-emailish name in one of the threads at this board. I didn't think it warranted an announcement in press. Of course I don't think a lot of thing in press warrant an announcement in press, either.

t blunt

I think the discussion that ensued after the question was asked and answered is unattractively petty. If there had been flames, spam, or abuse of some sort, I could see the need for all this. To be clear: I don't think the original question was petty (although I do think it might have been nicer to just ask me who I was, in thread, since it bothered you).

I would have answered.

t /blunt

I'm charmed by the pseuds, although I tend to feel that they lose their charm when they start participating in the board as just-another-board-member. If the FLO and Zombie Robots aren't being ferrety and robotic, I get grumpy. In other words, if they're not being used for the point of the pseud, I don't see why anyone would bother.

I'm hardly one to be upset about internet anonymity, but I don't want to have a serious conversation with the ferrets because I don't know who the ferrets are. If you see what I mean.

ETA: Cindy, I don't think it's unfair for those of us who didn't know you were changing usernames to be confused. I thought it was a prank, not a permanent change.

Hey Cindy - A helpful admin could always change Xanderella's name to Cindy. IJS

edit to spell stuff right

Actually, Laura, any admin could reactivate the Cindy account in about 10 seconds. But Cindy said she didn't want that.

So far, I don't mind most of the pseudonym stuff, but I too worry about it getting out of hand. It is something that loses its charm fast.

I think it's only fair to note that culturally pseuds have only been used for jokes like FLO, and that there may be some residual bruising from Schmoker's abuse of multiple identities.

I don't think there's been any harm here at all, but I understand the discomfiture.

I think the discussion that ensued after the question was asked and answered is unattractively petty.

Unattractively petty is a harsh way to describe people discussing what does or does not make them uncomfortable, isn't it?

B.org's a pretty un-pseudish place, with a history of abuses attempted by people with psueds.

I don't see what's petty about people airing their feelings -- it's not like they're all ganging up on you.

I was just thinking about that, incidentally. How much less regularly-named we are at b.org than we used to be in our previous incarnations. Since TT encouraged it, we tended toward the name-sounding names, even for pseudonyms.

But anyway. I didn't really see anything problematic about the discussion. I think it's a real issue we need to deal with as a board. We've been fortunate in that we've been able to deal with the abuses in the past. And yeah, we're pretty un-pseud by nature.

For me, personally, I didn't have much problem with the (non-abuse) pseud use as it's been so far. But I come from a background where our real-name culture is a lot more uncommon than a pseud culture. So my mileage probably varies.

I like the pseuds. More ferrets.