those posted as name lists - not unique ?

The poster's name is meaningful if there is profile data - "Post", "Joined", ...

"Also posted as" has no significance.

I know this may not be what everyone does, but if someone would post not logged in and say they're let's say Pugsy or Chunkyfrog or Madalot, just for some examples, I wouldn't put any stock in it really being them. I wish the process of getting approved to post with a profile--not a long list of "also posted as" names that have little if any significance--was faster and that people couldn't post without being logged in. But I guess there must be a good reason that somebody has for doing it this way.

This is Pugsy doing an experiment with copying a non member name.

WearyOne wrote:I know this may not be what everyone does, but if someone would post not logged in and say they're let's say Pugsy or Chunkyfrog or Madalot, just for some examples, I wouldn't put any stock in it really being them. I wish the process of getting approved to post with a profile--not a long list of "also posted as" names that have little if any significance--was faster and that people couldn't post without being logged in. But I guess there must be a good reason that somebody has for doing it this way.

It won't let you do it with someone who has a member user name here.
I just tried to do with with WearyOne just like you write it and without caps...I get a message in red
"The username you entered is already in use, please select an alternative.

Now I can do it with a name that hasn't been formally accepted and register.

I just now did the post with AJ name...it let me post.

I did the xxyzx post by changing one letter which most of you never noticed.

No one can impersonate me or anyone else than has a active member ID account....they will get a message about the user name and won't be allowed to post.
Now they can impersonate any of the people who post as guests and not logged into their user ID.
You have no idea if if the person doing a guest posting is the same one you might be replying to.
The guy who has been defending xxyzx by wanting to be nice to him in hopes he would change his ways....I could impersonate him easily and if I can do it...anyone else can. They can put words in your mouth you never said.

Another reason to register and stay logged in when you post.

Goofproof wrote:Or just one person with NO personality what so ever! Jim

Speak for yourself, droopy drawers.

I belong to an outstanding technical forum. The only way you can look at it is to log in. To join, you must use your real name. It is not surprising, unlike this forum, there is no back biting, snide remarks, name calling, and down right nasty posts. We have many heated discussions, but always in a polite fashion.

I find it disgusting when people post nasty posts, while hiding behind a pseudonym. Would they say that, face to face? My view is reasonable people are not ashamed to post their views as a live, breathing person. I realize that is not a popular position for the vast majority of Internet participants, and that fact speaks volumes!

xxyzx wrote:

xxyxz wrote:

Goofproof wrote:Or just one person with NO personality what so ever! Jim

Speak for yourself, droopy drawers.

note to all
this post was by a fake xxyzx

fools people who dont read closely

Note to you - it was a real xxyxz, not a fake xxyzx. Nothing to do with your ID except a bit of similarity. You do see the difference don't you?

xxyzx wrote:

wardmiller wrote:I belong to an outstanding technical forum. The only way you can look at it is to log in. To join, you must use your real name. It is not surprising, unlike this forum, there is no back biting, snide remarks, name calling, and down right nasty posts. We have many heated discussions, but always in a polite fashion.

I find it disgusting when people post nasty posts, while hiding behind a pseudonym. Would they say that, face to face? My view is reasonable people are not ashamed to post their views as a live, breathing person. I realize that is not a popular position for the vast majority of Internet participants, and that fact speaks volumes!

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internet anonymity brings out the worst in the left leaning types

Actually, it CAN bring out the worst in ANYONE. Doesn't have to. Doesn't always.

wardmiller wrote:I belong to an outstanding technical forum. The only way you can look at it is to log in. To join, you must use your real name. It is not surprising, unlike this forum, there is no back biting, snide remarks, name calling, and down right nasty posts. We have many heated discussions, but always in a polite fashion.

I find it disgusting when people post nasty posts, while hiding behind a pseudonym. Would they say that, face to face? My view is reasonable people are not ashamed to post their views as a live, breathing person. I realize that is not a popular position for the vast majority of Internet participants, and that fact speaks volumes!

Oddly enough it is the regulars here, many who have chosen handles I would not answer to, who think they are NOT hiding and only THE "Guest" is hiding.

IMO the internet seems to be a collection of angry people who would get even more angry if someone spoke to them the way they speak to others.

"Be kind to one another" - Ellen

You suggest we abolish anonymity--in a MEDICAL forum?
What about medical privacy?
To say nothing of posting the truth about insurance companies , DME chains, and manufacturers.
Some of those would profit if we were gagged.
Probably why we are earnestly beset by trolls . . .

xxyzx wrote: there you go being confused

i only reply in kind
i never initiate attacks on anyone

tell it to rappoport
he did the studies
in real life
tat for tit is the best way to get cooperation
does not always work
but then nothing would work with the libturds who enjoy being bullies

No, I wasn't confused.

When you respond in kind because YOU that that is the best way to respond then you become the very bully that you claim you are responding to.

Responding to an asshole by being an asshole....just makes 2 assholes...that's all it does.

Your are no better than the bullies you think that the only way to deal with them is tit for tat and shit for shit...
So sad that someone so reportedly well educated lacks common sense or common courtesy and can't see any other alternative to being ugly than to be ugly right back. You think it stops them....it doesn't and hasn't and won't.

You have brought up and attacked people in this thread who haven't said a word to you in this thread....
You are just as big of a bully as those others and maybe I should add a racist adjective since you seem to think it's okay to use adjectives with the noun bully. Would that make it okay? Tit for tat?

Do 2 wrongs really make a right in your eyes? It's okay for you to be an ugly bully because people were ugly to you?
Sad little man you must be.

Pugsy wrote:Sad little man you must be.

Sad little man he is. Yet people keep responding to him like he matters. It's obvious his only outlet is to post obscenities and start trouble... such a lovely fulfilled human. Great way to spend the last years of your life... on a internet message board. Think about it.

Stop replying to him in any way... stop trying to teach him right from wrong. If you engage him he'll hang around; that's the long and short of it. Ignore him or anyone who posts as this deranged person.
.

Pity is nice---distance is better.

chunkyfrog wrote:You suggest we abolish anonymity--in a MEDICAL forum?

Sure. It would make this a much friendlier place.

chunkyfrog wrote:What about medical privacy?

What about it? Do you think someone is going to go to your next door neighbor and tell them you have trouble sleeping?

chunkyfrog wrote:To say nothing of posting the truth about insurance companies , DME chains, and manufacturers.

I don't understand that sentence. Do you mean people lie here about DME's, etc, but could not if they used their real name? People lie all the time, using their real name. The POUS tells, on the average, one lie a day.

Representatives of insurance companies, DME's, and manufacturers often tell lies.
The TRUTH is what they fear, and this is one of the few places where people may share the
FACTS without fear of reprisal.
Why is this so difficult for you to understand?
Also, privacy of medical conditions is a RIGHT.