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1) Would you use it equally deliberately if your name was something like "Mustafa Al Zawahiri" in 2002? 2) Do you have any documented cases where using your re
by ristretto 15y ago
1) Would you use it equally deliberately if your name was something like "Mustafa Al Zawahiri" in 2002?
2) Do you have any documented cases where using your real name had any advantage over using "reidmain"?
3) Social networks are not really a choice, trend-setters usually herd everyone else.
4) What's your name?
- reidmain 15y ago1) That is a good question. I would like to think I would because I would want to prove to those who stereotype that I am not an exception but like any of those difficult scenarios I will not presume my ideals would hold. 2) The only other pseudonym I've ever used is my gamer handle of Warmain. I would say that whenever I made a friend on a video game and we got close enough that we thought to exchange real names it forged a closer bond because it seemed to humanize you a bit more. But then again in video games there are names like xxxDragonSlayerzz. I think the pseudonyms people are complaining about using are not so dehumanizing. 4) My name is Reid. Pleasure to meet you.
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- ristretto 15y agoYou're cheating; you didn't give me your full name. That's because it doesn't matter in communities outside your close group of friends. And the more i know about you, the more i 'm bound to apply my racist stereotypes to you. What if I am a persian who supports Ahmad18stan? I think there are better ways to have spirited discussions than saying "real names solve everything"; They don't, we should be able to do better with an efficient text filter. The internet is revolutionary because it is flat. Personal name weight, honorary knighthoods, twitter followers or criminal past should not weigh on someone's opinion.