The Administration has made a change to the rules of this message board. They have added the following:
“Only one screen name is permitted per user. If you wish to change screen names please notify the webmaster and we will deactivate your old screen name. Use of multiple screen names is grounds for revocation of your right to post under ANY screen name. We reserve the right to refuse postings from screen names we find objectionable.”
I need a rule clarification. Majormd and I post from the same computer. We are quite different people. Is your policing program going to pick us up and ban both of us? I am sure there are others on this board that do the same thing. Will you e-mail someone and ask if they are a different person before you terminate the account? If you are going to do that, seems like a lot of prevarication will go on.
“You can be smart or pleasant. For years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.”
Elwood P. Dowd
Ditto what PUN asked. We have five registered SDMB members at this computer. Admittedly only three have done any posting to date, but the younger two occasionally read portions of the board that I send to them, and I would expect that eventually they will become contributers. Also, I’ve been known to post from Tyler’s 'puter, and Jeff, Ty, Andrea, and others have been known to post from mine.
Well, I think the multitrolls are unlikely to admit they are using the same computer; can you imagine The Finder and FORMERAGENT saying they use the same 'puter? There goes the cloak and dagger bit. An intergral part of multitrolling is that the aliases pretend they don’t know each other, or at least that they are not in the same physical area. Any troll-acting group of aliases that use the same computer could be ID’d as a multitroll, and distinct people who use the same computer would be left alone.
For example, Melin and PUNdit post from the same computer. So they keep only one name, say Melin. When PUN posts under Melin’s name, he signs his name at the bottom of his post.
Melin’s listed as the author, but we know PUNdit wrote the post.
If the adminsstration is going to be adamant about this, it’s one solution.
Hmmm Wally, do I have to move to California?
I have enjoyed being married to a doctor, I guess I could get used to a lawyer. Or are you one of the people that think Melin and Sue are the same person because they agree on so many things?
