# Use of real names **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 14, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660 "2006-08-14T13:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/21 "2006-08-16T01:16:08Z")
Oh, and **Tripler** , is it okay if I call you “sugar tits?” 😉 ---
**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:** [August 16, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/22 "2006-08-16T04:50:05Z")
[QUOTE=Carnac the Magnificent!] Can it now be revelead that your stage name is “Trixie Tuba Delight”? [/QUOTE] Bertha DaBlues, actually. But that’ll be our secret. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/23 "2006-08-16T15:14:51Z")
I think of this “polite fiction” as rather like the internet version of [Chatham House Rules](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/24 "2006-08-16T19:35:49Z")
[QUOTE=John Corrado] For the record, I’ll be really pissed if someone reveals my real name on this board. [/QUOTE] Fuckin’ A. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/25 "2006-08-18T01:43:49Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Oh, and **Tripler** , is it okay if I call you “sugar tits?” 😉 [/QUOTE] If you so desire. (I don’t get the reference, though. . .) Tripler ::shrugs:: ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/26 "2006-08-18T03:11:34Z")
A long time ago, in an internet far, far away… Way back when the Internet Oracle was pretty well known and fairly heavily used, I began to get harassing phone calls from an irate user because I wouldn’t select his (obviously magnificent) pearls of wisdom for the digests. They stopped shortly after I pointed my phone number to a modem bank. (It’s good to work for a phone company.) Since then I’ve been a little more discreet about the use of my real name. I’m sure it’d be pretty easy to find, especially since I have my email addy posted, but I tend to be a little more careful now. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/27 "2006-08-18T03:52:24Z")
**Bertha**! I can’t believe it’s you! I was at the table next to yours in chemistry lab in high school! I dated your brother, Bjorn Torsink DaBlues. Hey, how did that little thing with the morals charge come out? 😛 (It’s me – Hortense Rotman. The one with the pink leotard that caught on fire during the SATs) ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/28 "2006-08-18T11:50:12Z")
[QUOTE=John Corrado] For the record, I’ll be really pissed if someone reveals my real name on this board. [/QUOTE] Me too!! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/29 "2006-08-18T14:20:34Z")
[QUOTE=John Corrado] For the record, I’ll be really pissed if someone reveals my real name on this board. [/QUOTE] “Lighten up, Francis.” 😛 You know it’s a little annoying to me even when a poster has no problem with it. Say some poster has revealed their IRL 1st name- and then a few who have met/know that poster respond to that poster using that name. It’s confusing. They’ll say something like “Good post Bob”, and there is no Bob as a poster name. Even if “Bob” signs his posts with “Bob” if his postername is “MrSillyPants” that’s what I like to see him refered to. But that’s just me. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/30 "2006-08-18T15:29:53Z")
[QUOTE=Zoe] **Bertha**! I can’t believe it’s you! I was at the table next to yours in chemistry lab in high school! I dated your brother, Bjorn Torsink DaBlues. Hey, how did that little thing with the morals charge come out? 😛 (It’s me – Hortense Rotman. The one with the pink leotard that caught on fire during the SATs) [/QUOTE] I remember you! Or was it your cousin . . . Bessie Mae Mucho? I always got you two confused. You were the one witih the harelip, right? ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/31 "2006-08-18T19:23:26Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva] As someone who routinely has their real-life information (name, address, phone number) published elsewhere in cyberspace as a harassment technique, I absolutely understand why a poster would be dismayed to see any real life information displayed anywhere. [/QUOTE] Indeed. I seem to recall a case last year where a member of this message board—an administrator, no less—knowingly flouted the SDMB/_Chicago Reader_ privacy policy by making a criminal allegation about one of our members and then providing a link to his real name, contact information, and photograph. The administrator in question was suspended, and Ed Zotti was obliged to issue an apology to the member concerned and a public comment confirming the SDMB’s commitment to its members’ privacy. I’m glad that you absolutely understand how upsetting such a violation of privacy would be to the person involved, and that you extend the same respect and consideration to others as you expect for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/32 "2006-08-18T19:24:49Z")
[QUOTE=Tripler] If you so desire. (I don’t get the reference, though. . .) [/QUOTE] When Mel Gibson was pulled over for drunk driving, he referred to a female police officer as “sugar tits.” ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/33 "2006-08-18T21:26:47Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] When Mel Gibson was pulled over for drunk driving, he referred to a female police officer as “sugar tits.” [/QUOTE] Now what the hell is so anti-Semitic about that? Geez. You’d think he called Dubya a “Communist” or something. . . Tripler I kid! I kid! ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660/34 "2006-08-18T23:44:42Z")
I remember the **Stage Manager** debacle. That poster used his real name in his public email address, and that is how I found out that, according to a sexual offender database, his attempt to catagorize his crime as more of a misunderstanding than anything else was sick and wrong. Dude was convicted of a heinous, brutal sexual crime against a minor, and that might even have been a plead-down. If you don’t want your real name known, don’t use it as your frigging email address. Duh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-real-names/368660.md?page=1)