Originally posted by Skydancer
But I think you mean people changing their handle in here and posting under psuedonyms. Don't we all do that or is Toad your real name? Whatever I think the subject is well past dead.
I'll continue to post my drivel. You guys post yours;) and we'll all be happy huh?
We all have a BBS persona attached to a chosen BBS name. However, not all of us feel the need to continually reinvent ourselves, discarding our original persona and suddenly reappearing as a "new" personality. Toad has been my BBS and AH in-game name since the first day of beta here. It gives a continuity; it helps people "know" me to the extent possible here. People I meet in person, like at the cons, know what to expect and in fact know quite a bit about me.
Some folks have to re-register for various reasons but the normal ones usually identify themselves so that there is a continuity of personality.
Like it or not, realize it or not, you create yourself as a person here by what you write, how you write and how you react to others.
The lesser amongst us do a bad job of that and disappear and recreate themselves as a new account. They pretend that they are not the person they were before, perhaps because the realize they made a very bad job of that persona. Because there are major "tip-offs" in writing style and thought processes, it usually doesn't take long for folks to figure out who the new persona was before he reinvented himself.
The more honest approach is to remain with the original persona and make the necessary changes so folks don't ignore or despise you. In fact, I respect folks that do that. Some people start out as total jerks and become valued members of the community. However, shade accounts usually inhibit that process.
You are certainly free to post your drivel. I suspect it will be met with the same disregard that it earned when you posted as Zulu7.
