# Notice: Rule Addition on Screen Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 16, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265 "2000-01-16T16:13:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/1 "2000-01-16T16:13:00Z")
[Moderator Hat: ON] 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.” * * * David B, SDMB Great Debates Moderator [Moderator Hat: OFF] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/2 "2000-01-16T16:50:00Z")
How is this enforceable? As long as you use an anon email (hotmail and such) what’s to stop multiples? * * * The most \Invisible\ poster in the history of the boards. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/3 "2000-01-16T16:51:00Z")
geez I gotta go fix that sig. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/4 "2000-01-16T16:53:00Z")
Ve haf our vays… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/5 "2000-01-16T17:00:00Z")
I can rid my machine of cookies. So can anyone else. * * * The most Invisible poster in the history of the boards. Posting invisably since sept 1999. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/6 "2000-01-16T17:04:00Z")
_sigh_ maybe it’s right now. * * * The most Invisible poster in the history of the boards. Posting invisibly since sept 1999. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/7 "2000-01-16T17:05:00Z")
Let’s just say that most muliple-personality trolls aren’t as smart as you are and leave it at that. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/8 "2000-01-16T17:18:00Z")
There is no way I’m giving up my Rascist Scumbag handle. I’m keeping the Phaedrus screen name, too. Nuttin you can do about it. \ * * * Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/9 "2000-01-16T17:29:00Z")
Oh, come off it, Wally. We all know you’re _really_ Phaedrus. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/10 "2000-01-16T17:31:00Z")
Wait a minute … that didn’t come out right… ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/11 "2000-01-16T17:34:00Z")
Hear, hear! Assuming you can and will actually crack the whip and enforce this rule - huzzahs all around. (It would have saved me from looking like an ass with the Captain Ed business, anyway.) - Rick ---
**Author:** ![PUNdit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@PUNdit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PUNdit)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/12 "2000-01-16T17:36:00Z")
## 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 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/13 "2000-01-16T17:44:00Z")
Right. I am a _different_ person; almost everybody here says that. 😕 * * * “Life is like a new suit of clothes. If it doesn’t fit, make alterations.” –the old woman in Silverado ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/14 "2000-01-16T17:50:00Z")
Edlyn and I also share the same home account (though I might have registered with my work account). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/15 "2000-01-16T17:54:00Z")
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. So how will this work? -Melin ---
**Author:** ![Freedomx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4af34b/32.png) [@Freedomx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freedomx)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/16 "2000-01-17T06:01:00Z")
I assume that unless you are one of the obvious, troll posters then you would not come under scrutiny. Think about FormerAgent, Finder, Racist Scumbag etc…etc… I’m guessing that the people this is tageted at will stick out like a sore thumb. ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/17 "2000-01-17T06:07:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/18 "2000-01-17T06:43:00Z")
It looks like the admins mean business. How about this for a solution– 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. * * * Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/19 "2000-01-17T06:52:00Z")
Geez, does this mean that I have to move to Texas, or PUN has to move to California? -Melin ---
**Author:** ![PUNdit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@PUNdit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PUNdit)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265/20 "2000-01-17T06:53:00Z")
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? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notice-rule-addition-on-screen-names/17265.md?page=2)