When I first went online, Salon was supercrazy about you using your real name. I gradually adopted an internet personality. I'm only vortex here, but sowilo (or some variation thereof) everywhere else.
Is "sowilo" a Buffy reference?
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
javachik - Jun 29, 2011 3:52:02 pm PDT #14719 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
le nubian - Jun 29, 2011 4:00:54 pm PDT #14720 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
You know, I had "le nubian" over on Salon. When were they crazy about real names?
Jesse - Jun 29, 2011 4:02:09 pm PDT #14721 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Definitely when I registered, they asked for first and last names, and it didn't occur to me not to use my real name, although I don't think there was any reason not to, really. I went back in and changed it to my initial at some point.
javachik - Jun 29, 2011 4:03:14 pm PDT #14722 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Definitely when I registered, they asked for first and last names, and it didn't occur to me not to use my real name, although I don't think there was any reason not to, really. I went back in and changed it to my initial at some point.
Yep. I went to Salon directly from The Well in 1995 and it was definitely a "use your first and last name" environment back then (which is how The Well was).
Hil R. - Jun 29, 2011 4:04:02 pm PDT #14723 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
When I registered for salon, the page said to use your real name, with some sort of "If you really don't want to, we guess it's OK, but we won't like it" sort of disclaimer.
sarameg - Jun 29, 2011 4:11:49 pm PDT #14724 of 30001
IIRC, there was some huge kerfuffle when a salon writer did an article and used a bunch of quotes from posters, full names given, without seeking permission. From MWT boards, I believe. And that lead to a bunch of people changing to pseudonyms. I don't know it that was before or after I registered, but I did have knowledge of it. That said, I'd briefly been Full Name on the NPR boards, but didn't stay there long, felt too exposed as such, so used this one when I registered. To post about cats, I think.
le nubian - Jun 29, 2011 4:14:41 pm PDT #14725 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think I joined Salon around 1999. I guess they were okay with pseudos then.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2011 4:17:31 pm PDT #14726 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I registered at Salon under my full name, and again as just this. Not sure why I registered as my full name, but I didn't post much with it and they rooted it out in a push for consolidation later. Tried to make me go that way instead of this.
No, thankee! ita is just enough to stand out and also be untraceable.
I had been full name on USENET and some random web pages, and that still bothers me. Because I had nothing useful to say. Midget (yeah, midget, I'm pretty sure) battles. Oh, yeah.
brenda m - Jun 29, 2011 4:54:26 pm PDT #14727 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Since we're talking about names [I've rarely used a pseud, mostly because I get all weird about "what is this expressing? what does this make people think I'm trying to say" about it and then it's just easier to default to real name or variation therof], ANYWAY, I need to share that I am working on a global project and the person we are proposing as a key lead in China is named "Beyond Yu". Oy.
sarameg - Jun 29, 2011 5:00:59 pm PDT #14728 of 30001
I've got a user whose registered self assigned user id in our database is something obscene. And the poor thing is stateside, very fluent in english and oh-so polite and prim ( she blushes when she says stupid,) I can't imagine what she was thinking. I guess she wasn't?