ORIGINAL: Staggerwing
Dude...
Registering under two or more names without letting the public know is duplicitous. It also hints at a personality schism. It's better to say upfront when registering a second account that it is for a specific reason such as reviewing games or participating in an RPG or such. Don't be creepy.[:-]
I can't say upfront because the reason in the first place I went on under Alias was I was being harrassed, ask Sigma, there are plenty of forum posts on there all about it at the time. I did ask Sigma if it was OK. Went on as Somme and someone came along to say who I was. Went on again as someone else, was banned. Felt it was unjust, so went on again using my middle names. Now painted out to have personality issues. Hmmm. Funny how for eight or nine years previously no one noticed my mental problems on there. This all started last October when the Wargamer forum changed and someone was going around putting those stupid icons on everyone of my posts saying I was full of sh1t more or less. Also I don't post as a different personality. I post as me using a avatar. Everyone who is using an Avatar you could say if you want is pretending to be someone different. Also I very much doubt I'm the only one who has registered on a forum using two different Avatars for whatever reason.
Lets say everyone knows me as Wodin (by the way thats not me, it's a made up name,an avatar,it isn't my identity but a made up one). Someone starts a new forum with all those people and I sign up using a different Avatar. Is that wrong? No. You can use whatever name you want. I know people who use different names at different forums here. They don't tell you on the forum that they are so and so from another forum.
Again your saying exactly what I expect from any inner circle of a certain crowd. The evidence to it all is online. Not hard to find. God even in a court of law I'd be able to show a paper trail and everyone would go "Oh right, we see why you did it, fair enough".
I have been told and in certain cases found out of certain people in this community who do do quite underhand and sly things to settle online issues. from threats of violence y organisations (yeah mad I know) to smear campaigns so bad that they even go to other people on the net who don't even post on the particular forum but may have standing in a certain community. That, that is disgusting and deserves to be called to account, yet it doesn't, these people aren't banned or publicly humiliated like they've been put in some sort of Internet Stocks. Using a couple of Avatars on a forum and not causing any problems at all with other members to me is nothing in caparison. Yet it seems it deserves to be announced publicly, followed by a ban, then aload of abuse on the forum you've been banned from where you can no longer even reply. Even though as I said it all stemmed really from Wargamer not being able to protect a long term member from harrassment.
