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Jon Awbrey
post Sat 26th April 2008, 2:16pm
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The Use Of Pseudonyms Is A Prima Facie Symptom Of Emotional, Mental, And Moral Dysfunction


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Notice. Pseudonymaniacs Anonymous Meets Here Wednesday Mornings, 3:00 AM.

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what, anywhere? Or just on wikipedia-related sites?

Using a pseudonym is only what most people do on the entire internet, at least for some of the time.
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QUOTE(wikiwhistle @ Sat 26th April 2008, 10:27am) *

What, anywhere? Or just on Wikipedia-related sites?

Using a pseudonym is only what most people do on the entire internet, at least for some of the time.


I think you have the Internet confused with Usenut.

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I think you have the Internet confused with Usenut.

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Think how many people on the average site, any site, are using their real name as their usename. It's hardly just on usenet that this is by far the minority of users of any given site.

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Jon Awbrey   The Use Of Pseudonyms Is a Prima Facie Symptom   Sat 26th April 2008, 2:16pm
Moulton   Is the initiation of this thread prima facie evide...   Sat 26th April 2008, 3:07pm
Disillusioned Lackey   Hogwash. "If everyone knew what others sai...   Sat 26th April 2008, 3:20pm
wikiwhistle   Enforced real identity-internet identification, ...   Sat 26th April 2008, 7:20pm
Disillusioned Lackey   A lot of people who use their real name online, a...   Sat 26th April 2008, 8:25pm
Gold heart   So it isn't only an issue of net-naiivite. I...   Sat 26th April 2008, 8:40pm
wikiwhistle   So it isn't only an issue of net-naiivite. ...   Sat 26th April 2008, 9:00pm
Amarkov   It's not even so much about libel, as just co...   Sat 26th April 2008, 9:01pm
wikiwhistle   But it is advertised as an encyclopedia. And a go...   Sat 26th April 2008, 9:14pm
Amarkov   [quote name='Amarkov' post='96497' date='Sat 26th...   Sat 26th April 2008, 9:26pm
Disillusioned Lackey   It's still the internet, and internet risks a...   Sat 26th April 2008, 11:12pm
wikiwhistle   [quote name='wikiwhistle' post='96501' date='Sat ...   Sat 26th April 2008, 11:36pm
Disillusioned Lackey   Did I say anything about that? You mean in news...   Sun 27th April 2008, 12:52am
wikiwhistle   I think that you vastly underestimate the level o...   Sun 27th April 2008, 1:38am
Disillusioned Lackey   I've not said anything about the level of att...   Sun 27th April 2008, 9:58am
the fieryangel   Let's not even go there...   Fri 6th June 2008, 8:10pm
Proabivouac   But it is advertised as an encyclopedia. And a go...   Sat 26th April 2008, 11:14pm
Jon Awbrey   Hogwash. [center][i]"If everyone knew what...   Tue 6th May 2008, 12:00pm
Moulton   This thread is an example of Regression Toward the...   Tue 6th May 2008, 6:34pm
jd turk   [font=georgia][size=4]Resolved — The Use Of Ps...   Tue 6th May 2008, 7:36pm
Jon Awbrey   [b][color=dodgerblue][font=georgia][size=4]Resol...   Tue 6th May 2008, 7:59pm
wikiwhistle   If most of the Western population starts claiming ...   Tue 6th May 2008, 9:08pm
Jon Awbrey   Citizen Turk, Let me focus for a moment on your o...   Tue 6th May 2008, 9:28pm
jd turk   You said that Anonyms make Pseudonyms necessary. ...   Wed 7th May 2008, 5:17am
Jon Awbrey   You said that Anonyms make Pseudonyms necessary....   Wed 7th May 2008, 12:32pm
Proabivouac   In light of that Principle Of Equivalence, your s...   Wed 7th May 2008, 12:47pm
anthony   [b][color=dodgerblue][font=georgia][size=4]Resol...   Tue 6th May 2008, 10:26pm
Jon Awbrey   [b][color=dodgerblue][font=georgia][size=2]Reso...   Wed 7th May 2008, 12:52am
GlassBeadGame   [quote name='Jon Awbrey' post='96424' date='Sat ...   Wed 7th May 2008, 1:08am
Jon Awbrey   Pseudonym = False Name For example, consider the ...   Wed 7th May 2008, 1:34am
GlassBeadGame   Pseudonym = False Name Jon B) I think the othe...   Wed 7th May 2008, 1:38am
Jon Awbrey   [quote name='Jon Awbrey' post='99614' date='Tue 6...   Wed 7th May 2008, 2:02am
anthony   Then again, my username there, as well as here, ...   Wed 7th May 2008, 4:42am
dogbiscuit   But then, I don't think every public statemen...   Wed 7th May 2008, 9:28am
Moulton   Embrace Your Avatar Gordon Pitts of the Toronto G...   Fri 6th June 2008, 12:43pm
Jon Awbrey   [font=georgia][size=4]Resolved — The Use Of Ps...   Sat 6th September 2008, 2:18am
Jon Awbrey   [color=dodgerblue][font=georgia][size=4]Resolved ...   Wed 15th October 2008, 2:54pm
Somey   On top of everything else, the use of pseudonyms q...   Thu 16th October 2008, 4:34am
Jon Awbrey   [quote name='Jon Awbrey' post='136126' date='Wed ...   Thu 16th October 2008, 10:40am
Moulton   I see it going the other way. I see WMF-sponsored...   Thu 16th October 2008, 5:18am
Somey   I see WMF-sponsored projects ineluctably morphing ...   Thu 16th October 2008, 8:09am
Jon Awbrey   That may be true within certain "trouble spo...   Thu 16th October 2008, 11:00am
Moulton   I don't think they can arrest the transformat...   Thu 16th October 2008, 11:23am
Cedric   I don't think they can arrest the transforma...   Thu 16th October 2008, 4:45pm
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Count DeMonet   Strange for me to say, but I find myself more in ...   Wed 22nd October 2008, 12:09pm
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Cedric   [quote name='Count" DeMonet' post='137417' d...   Thu 23rd October 2008, 4:03pm
Jon Awbrey   I think both Moulton and Kabalversity have Peer Re...   Thu 16th October 2008, 1:02pm
Somey   Year 2? — I thought it was 7 or 8. Year 2 of thi...   Thu 16th October 2008, 5:05pm
everyking   Year 2? — I thought it was 7 or 8. Year 2 of th...   Thu 16th October 2008, 5:51pm
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Jon Awbrey   Year 2? — I thought it was 7 or 8. Year 2 of...   Thu 16th October 2008, 5:52pm
Jon Awbrey   Just in case there are few Noobees who do not know...   Thu 16th October 2008, 6:56pm
Jon Awbrey   Epigraph Added In Proof — Just in case there ...   Fri 17th October 2008, 11:20pm
Moulton   [url=http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User_talk:Moul...   Thu 16th October 2008, 7:38pm
Jon Awbrey   Moulton, Put down the mouse, step away from the k...   Thu 16th October 2008, 8:01pm
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Jon Awbrey   And you wonder why this isn't a more popular ...   Fri 17th October 2008, 1:02pm
Somey   I wasn't really in it for the Popularity, but ...   Sat 18th October 2008, 3:43am


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