On 7/29/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 29/07/07, Sheldon Rampton
<sheldon(a)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.
--
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]