It's been pointed out by a member or two that recently there has been a rash of aliases as people make jokes and create members to push the joke further and so on. Except what was once funny now is fuel to the trolls and to those taking jokes too far.

My question: Is there a problem?

If there is, tell me what it is. I'm happy to think about various ways to solve any perceived problem with aliases. Be it outing them and making aliases visible, to banning aliases, or doing nothing at all.

Anyhow... what's up?

out them... lets see whos been fing around. I think people will be surprised!

maybe a poll?

to be honest it all goes over my head and i miss out on the whole thing,
not that this helps

I don't see it as a real problem - it's generally tedious and largely unfunny - but then again so are many of us...

Outing them is a bit McCarthyesque maybe? Of course, I do want to see who some of them were.

I'm torn.

Tonight Matthew,
I'm going to be...

Badly Torn Boy

TAXI!

out them. was funny for a little while but i now see it as a waste of time.

the problem is, it turns to a 'boy who cried wolf' situation. we get newbies coming in for some technical knowhow. but because others fcked around with aliases, people dont bother giving serious/helpful advise anymore or worse flame the newbie.

i'm content to be tedious and unfunny without hiding behind an alias.
i say ban the noms' de plume.

I originally created stoopsombitch when i thought as my current self, i wouldnt get serious answers as shinscar... if you check stoops original posts he asked some very sensible questions!

But then i shared the password with 2 other members of the forum who might prosper from having another sensible way of communicating with members within this forum, without knowing who they were.........
unfortunately we took this for granted the character stoop was too much of a personality, the very nature of his name lead us too stupidity.... hence RIP stoopsombitch.

Shin

personally, the alias thing is just annoying, in the first instance it can be funny, but now I can't figure out who are the trolls and who are the aliases, I don't understand why you create an alias to act like a troll, when trolls just make the forum a more confusing, contentious, and to a certain extent boring place. Personally I'd either ban them all, or allow one alias per user if they feel the need to create another persona.

Maybe we should have an amnesty, everyone can hand in their alias and walk away without prosecution.

I will go first:

1) Tynan
2) Wheels
3) That shit's fucked up.

the only one i really like is "That shit's fucked up", because it was funny and doesn't hurt anyone. It's not me, I don't know or care who it is. But the myriad alias users that have offended or belittled people or groups of people are just out of order.

I wouldn't know the best way technically of managing this. You can't really restrict by IP or cookies etc, cos some people on here share computers or use one at home and one at work etc. Is there any other way you can control this VB?

1) Shinscar
2) Stoopsombitch (murtle & jonny)

i thought it was you tynan!

1) deadtome

i wish i had DTM...hes everything i want to be

you are deadtome.

I love That shit's fucked up. 99% of the rest are annoying. My views mirror Cornies.

EDIT: I have another login from when I could not login after the forum softwear change. Can't remember what it was now, I think it had brick in it though.

I have no alias.

What happens to the users who don't/won't declare?

can it not be limited to a certain number of accounts per ip address, btw i know little about if this would work
or check to see if they have the same email and limit to one per email, and just ban them, it's not funny if there are loads of people just being annoyed by them

and i believe shin has more than just one alias

They will be strapped naked to a 2007 city edition Langster and pushed off Waterloo bridge.

@flickwg - Did you not see my confession.

Pushed down Brick Lane and then off Tower Bridge would be better.

That shit's fucked up

1) Stoopsombitch (ray, murtle and jonny)
2) Shinscar (yep me ray)

yep stoops right thats ray alright...vb check the ip

:D you douches.

Just those two pseudonyms then?

Object
Rape Me (Post trixie chix party and the oants incident)
Don Logan (Reponse to an audio file from Sexy Beast)
Hazard to your health (Mocking myself, from memory)
GOD (Last year some time, can't remember why. Rears his head every now and then)
EVIL Shinscar (Like I could resist)
Soxandale (Response to saxondale. Feeling the need to reduce the thread to total stupidity)
No I'm Brian (Reponse to no I'm spartacus type jokes)
Knobject (just so that shinscar couldn't)
WAC (To post the WAC picture on a blatant alias/troll thread)
BURN HIM (Troll fighting tool)
other. (Response to John Ma3K voting for "other" in a poll)

lol you knew i would too!

whats knobjects password?

ha!

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Oh, I know who people are... but should you all know? Is there a need to allow semi-private accounts (aliases) in case people need to post with some (public) anonymity? Or is the current state leading to a bit of a mess and although no need for semi-private accounts (beyond just not using your real name as your username) has arisen it's better to stem the tide of aliases than leave the ability open?

No real names on the internet.

I need to keep work and my private life very seperate and they do google check frequently.
Real names unfortunately means I would have to stop using the forum.