# OK to guess RL ID's of Dopers?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-to-guess-rl-ids-of-dopers/491402>\
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**Created:** [March 31, 2009, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-to-guess-rl-ids-of-dopers/491402 "2009-03-31T07:37:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-to-guess-rl-ids-of-dopers/491402/21 "2009-03-31T18:56:50Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> I _might_ be John Le Carre. But I ain’t sayin’!

> [@Rhythmdvl](#):
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> But are you Spartacus?

**I** am Spartacus!

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**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-to-guess-rl-ids-of-dopers/491402/22 "2009-03-31T19:01:52Z")

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No, that’s my wife!

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-to-guess-rl-ids-of-dopers/491402/23 "2009-03-31T19:17:13Z")

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> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#):
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> I would NOT have liked to have my name and address and whereabouts openly known to some of the lunatics we’ve had on these boards, and I suspect there are others who feel the same.

Come on, now. It’s not like we don’t know what you look like.

[A gent from Philadelphia](http://www.popularpersons.org/pic.php?n=cary-grant/&b=Cary-Grant/) 😃

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**Author:** ![Wiltshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea5d25/32.png) [@Wiltshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wiltshire)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-to-guess-rl-ids-of-dopers/491402/24 "2009-03-31T19:44:58Z")

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> **[SDMB registration agreement as of 12/29/2008](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=423183)**
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> The agreement below spells out the rules by which SDMB users are expected to abide. Changes since the last version are indicated in bold. These changes reflect the change in ownership and switch to free posting. All changes are effective immediately....

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> You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use the SDMB to post any material that you know or should know is false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, **invasive of a person’s privacy** , or in violation of U.S. law.

Unless posters expressly relieve each other from this obligation, I’d say that’s a definite no.

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**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-to-guess-rl-ids-of-dopers/491402/25 "2009-03-31T19:57:45Z")

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> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
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> I’m certainly on of the ‘publisher writer’ class

But clearly not the “edited writer” class. 😉

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