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A request for my pseudonymous commenters

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To my pseudonymous commenters: I value your comments on my blog — I really do — and I want you to keep commenting. Please don’t stop! However, I do have one request:

Please pick one pseudonym and stick with it, or else use “anonymous.” When you change pseudonyms all the time, it kinda defeats the purpose of having a pseudonym. And it’s deceptive. It gives the illusion that several different people are sharing opinions, even though you’re really the same person. I know at least one of you has even responded to your own pseudonymous comment under another pseudonym. Now come on — that’s a little excessive, isn’t it? Unless you have a dissociative identity disorder, I would prefer that you either pick one pseudonym to identify yourself, or else use “anonymous” if you don’t want to have an identity.

Thanks for understanding. And please keep commenting.

11 thoughts on “A request for my pseudonymous commenters”

  4. Put the posters IP address next to the name in the posts. Surely Bill’s kung fu can accomplish this.

  6. Hopefully I have never done this… sometimes I put Jennifer and sometimes I put jenjw4…. oopps. sorry.
    (Now if I was devilish I would post again and admonish myself)

  7. No; while I’ve had a handful of people do this, there’s only one who has really had an indefensible proliferation of pseudonyms lately, and that person knows who he or she is. But I didn’t want to call that person out, and I thought it might be a good idea to sort of make it a policy for everyone (on the honor system, of course).

    Just want to reiterate that I love my pseudonymous commenters (and my real-name commenters, too)! 🙂

  8. My God. the world is grinding to an end. You mean in the internet world someone is mis-representing him or herself? Heavens…. These are the days of our lives.

  9. a little post script if I may…..CJ is turning into a Billy Dennis.
    signed;
    Randall L Emert Sr aka Emtronics who also is know as The Peoria AntiPundit but never late to dinner.

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