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Post by Humph on Jun 22, 2020 19:37:32 GMT
I think it's just slightly ( only slightly admittedly ) safer to use a name other than your real one. Silly maybe, but for example, when discussing holidays or other social habits that take you away from home, it's probably better not to announce your movements, or indicate empty premises etc to a random reader. Any professionally bad person would soon circumnavigate it all anyway of course.
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Post by WDB on Jun 22, 2020 21:07:26 GMT
I think we’re fine as we are. I don’t suppose anyone much reads what we share here but absolutely anyone could, and if it was written in the expectation of a real name not being attached to it, that’s how it should remain. I do comment elsewhere under my real name, or a version of it, and I take a different approach because of that.
Private messages are a different matter. Fine to use real names there.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 22, 2020 22:00:18 GMT
Curious isn't it that I suspect we all would be less like keyboard warriors if we were easily identified. It was musing really but I'm not sure I would want to be identified even by a first name without consent.
I could be called John but Tarquin-Quentin is rather identifiable even without a surname.
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Post by Avant on Jun 22, 2020 22:57:33 GMT
I'm trying really hard to think that I wouldn't be prejudiced and, yes, I would consult a surveyor called Tarquin-Quentin. But I'd have to believe that he hadn't inherited any of his parents' sadistic genes.  I agree with WDB - let's play safe under our noms de clavier. But it would be great to meet in the flesh at some point if that could be arranged. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 8:53:19 GMT
Curious isn't it that I suspect we all would be less like keyboard warriors if we were easily identified. It was musing really but I'm not sure I would want to be identified even by a first name without consent. I could be called John but Tarquin-Quentin is rather identifiable even without a surname. That's why I stay here though - there aren't any keyboard warriors, well not since a couple of them drifted away... I think WDB is right, the open forum is fine as it is. It amuses me when people call me Al and Vic though, Alan was my Dad's name and Vic was a great uncle's name. |
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 23, 2020 11:52:01 GMT
I'm trying really hard to think that I wouldn't be prejudiced and, yes, I would consult a surveyor called Tarquin-Quentin. But I'd have to believe that he hadn't inherited any of his parents' sadistic genes. I agree with WDB - let's play safe under our noms de clavier. But it would be great to meet in the flesh at some point if that could be arranged. Any surveyors called Tarquin-Quentin will be wearing cords and tweeds, talk with a cut glass accent and his wife will eventually look like the horse she owns.... They spend lots of time in the houses of landed gentry managing tenanted farms. I have met surveyors who should be called Tarquin-Quentin. They are very funny to laugh at.... Have no clue about real life. |
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Post by bromptonaut on Jun 29, 2020 10:55:12 GMT
We're fine as we are here for but OTOH I'm easy with real names as long as they're not being used to bully or niggle people. Either HJ or C4P had a "What's your forename" thread years ago.
Pretty much everybody on C4P came over from Honest John; those of us who were in from early on have been chatting and falling out for all but 20 years. It's quite interesting to go back to the early iteration of that board and see how many people, and I was one of them, posted using their forename and surname and only adopted a username later on.
Espada, you were easy to identify as at some stage you mentioned the name of your firm. It rang an immediate bell with me as they were one of the outfits my then employer (early nineties) pointed us to when needing agents to sell or manage property in the Manchester area. IIRC you'd also been photographed, with your forename in the who is who key, at a get together of HJ's 'Manchester Chapter'. At the time your website had a list of partners together with pictures and a biog...
Mark popped up on my Facebook as someone I might know. No idea how that link was made although there was a C4P Facebook group at one time.
I used to worry minorly about jigsaw identification whilst a serving Civil Servant but less so now.
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Post by dixinormus on Aug 18, 2020 22:33:59 GMT
Another man down? I think we lost TyrednE after a couple of postings in the Holidays thread a few weeks ago. Are there more than a dozen of us left?!?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 8:31:13 GMT
That would be an enormous shame. Hope he's OK.
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Post by bromptonaut on Aug 19, 2020 8:40:42 GMT
He's still posting in C4P.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 8:42:14 GMT
Good, glad he's upright. Hope he wanders back here.
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Post by Rob on Aug 19, 2020 16:25:12 GMT
From his recent posts I don't see why he's stopped posting here. Hope he comes back.
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Post by dixinormus on Aug 20, 2020 3:16:04 GMT
He may have perceived that offence had been taken at one if his posts...
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Post by Rob on Aug 20, 2020 16:51:33 GMT
Do you mean the one that got deleted?
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Post by dixinormus on Sept 29, 2020 3:57:57 GMT
Well, he never came back... Guess we upset him 😕
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