Well Lefty, since you asked, I feel compelled to kick in. Let me say first that I tend to be honest on these boards...boards like TER, as well as financial/stock boards like Yahoo or Investor Village, where people post about specific investments. Even if I hold a stock, if I see something in the company or management that I don't like, I tend to be very outspoken about it. Usually pisses lots of people off, as in: "you might scare new investors away." Well I think that's horseshit. I look at these boards and the internet in general as just another means of communication, and overall I believe myself to be a relatively honest person...that, readers, you can either accept or not.
As an aside, my honesty often hurts me. When I contact a provider, I'm open as to things like my age, physical ailments, constraints and the like. I don't want to be surprised by a provider not being what she purports to be, so similarly I'm open when describing myself, wants, needs and can and can't do's. As a result, I've been "rejected" on more than one occasion. Like everyone else, rejection never feels good, but I get over it, and in the end it just serves to prove to me that had that intended provider union taken place it ultimately would have not been a positive one.
Ok...enough with the digression. I'll go out on a limb here and hazard a guess that Southpaw isn't your real name. Bet Bizzarosuperdude and Christophtac are pseudonmyms too. Similarly my educated guess tells me that Solana Jewel, Macy Madison and Tiffany Lockheart aren't the real names of those providers. In other words they are aliases.
Know why: very simple, isn't it? The "hobby" ain't legal! Accordingly no one will post their real name here...provider or "hobbyist." Doesn't take a rocket scientist to get there, right? Further, even if it were legal, or if LE NEVER enforced, we'd still use aliases for a host of reasons....don't want family members knowing what we're up to; want to maintain our "real lives" without complications or questions; embarassed that we actually "pay for it!" Shite, the list could go on and on. So the fact remains: we ALL use aliases here.
Now what you're talking about is the use of an alias for our alias...multiple screen names. My opinion: They should NEVER be allowed...no exceptions. EVERYONE should have the balls to say what they want under the identity they've chosen within TER. Sort of along the lines of "post what you mean, mean what you post, or just don't post at all."
Frankie(which by the way really is my first name, not that it matters at all)
