On 7/29/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 29/07/07, Sheldon Rampton sheldon@prwatch.org wrote:
Rather than discuss the merits of this particular "outing," I think it would be more productive to discuss ways of encouraging people to edit under their own names rather than anonymously.
I started editing under my name rather than a net nickname because it felt like I was working on a serious project. I notice a few editors have switched from using nicknames to using their real names. That is, there's a force we could harness towards this.
I used to have my real name up on my userpage, but after the second failed attempt to out me, I decided it wasn't worth the risk of collateral damage. There are a lot of "Mark Wagner"s out there, and almost none of them are me. That's a lot of potential for false identification and harassment of random people.