Do you guys worry about your aliases? I don't usually. At times i make mine incredibly obvious to the lucid.

I declare that aliases are simply to make some sort of silly ststement. Of course TER rules state that an alias cannot be used to attack the character of another poster.

This is not to say that i don't uses them say something(hopefully tactful)while not compromising my handle.

There are certain aliases that ARE transparent.

Confessions anyone????

I am completely secure in my anonymity.

Now I can tell OSP exactly how I feel about him without worrying that he, or anyone else will ever figure out who I really am. lmao

Most of my statements are pretty silly anyhowsomeever, so I may as well post under my real handle and take out all the mystery.

and many aliases are a bit transparent.

vocabulary choice and writing style are pretty good clues. i've tried mixing them up for something i really wanted to keep UTR. but it isn't that effective a concealment.

The way I see it the term alias AS USED on this board is any name other than the one on your TER birth certificate.
For the purpose of this board The name on your TER birth certificate is your "real name" and any other name you use is an alias
As for me, I suppose,technically,  you could say I  have numerous aliases, however since the Followme family is so large I allow my cousins and other family menbers to sign on using my TER log in name then go to their names such as
SantaFollowmeClaus
FatherFollowme
EasterFollowmeBunny
PopeFollowmeLXIX
DrFollowmeOBGYN
RabbiFollowme
Followmeopolis
ClassFollowmeClown
CoachFollowme
to name just a few of my family (there are many others )
So technically these are aliases , however in my case they are all real  members of the followme family.
To the best of my knowledge they do behave themselves.


I hope this clears it all up


Thank you
2010 = 28

I don't and won't use an alias.  The way I figure it, if I'm not willing to take the heat for my commentary, I shouldn't post it to begin with.

Aliases seem like the chicken's way to say something for which you don't wish to be held responsible.  Doesn't seem like a good thing to me.

I've always been the in-your-face kinda person anyway. Why change now?

No clandestine, behind-the-back shit for me.

I'll take the shots from people that don't want to show who they are. That's cool.

But I won't come back as 'Johnnywad' or 'cumguzzlinggutterslut' or whatever.

Just not me.

posting while hiding behind an alias wipes out your credibility, unless the alias becomes your standard posting name which eventually gives you a posting history. Otherwise, its mainly used by the drama queens to cover their own tracks. Then in some other thread, they adopt a different alias and start the game all over again.

"Of course TER rules state that an alias cannot be used to attack the character of another poster."

--right, and we know that never happens here.

Mostly, I use them for fun. Because I have a distinctive writing style, and my form of reasoning is fairly distinctive; I really can't expect an alias to hide my identity.

I have also given a certain person nobody would suspect a list of my aliases; and upon request I give many who have asked a list of any aliases I've used during the current month.

This is because the widespread use of aliases to badmouth people has caused the default assumption to be made that anyone using an alias, is using it for nefarious deeds. As it is an easy matter to ascertain how many of a person's posts are aliased; I maintain a certain amount of transparency to divert this concern.

Is it above an alias, using your god given TER alias or is it below others using the alias feature provided.

Or perhaps it is level and even and credibility starts at the zero spot for all of us.

Either way, I do not know that you are really Mr. John Ragman, who lives at 1234 W. Crap Street, Anytown, FL 12345 Phone (800) EAT-CRAP, with a wife named Nancy and 5 children. Ooops I forgot you were divorced from that wretch 4 years ago.

Try to find me my friend. Just try it.

This isn't a don't ask don't tell thread. LOL

Don't go MP/mrfisher on me. LMAO

that's for everyone to judge on their own.

Yes, credibility STARTS at zero for everyone because at the start there is no history. But then it can climb. That doesn't mean I can claim credit for just anything. But if I were to state things that directly contradict earlier posts I made, then that could be known and again credibility becomes an issue for that, and then other things as well. Keep posting under changing aliases and I could claim one thing in one post and something else in the next thread.

It also means review history stays hidden away so I can claim certain things are wrong/bad even when I routinely do that myself. For instance, "craigslist is horrible - nothing but ROB etc etc." even when every single one of my 30 reviews are nothing but CL girls. Or bitch and moan about how reviewers are too soft when I rate every single person a 9 or 10 myself. Or countless other variations.

So yes, there is a sliding scale. Nobody is at 100 (IMO) but ever-changing aliases are pretty close to 0.

And I have no interest whatsoever in trying to find you. This is not about personal names, addresses and phone numbers.

It is still totally beyong belief that you whiners continue to cry about alias use.  What is it that infuriates you so when you can't see a REAL fake name???  Is it a feeling of helplessness, not knowing who the real fake is behind the fake fake.  Does the thought that a provider could actually be telling you that you have no gonads make you squeemish?
All of you post about your upstanding, reputations, your feeling of total self worth, and your exceedingly thick skin, your high level of self esteem, only to break down babbling and whining that a foul has occurred!  All of this drama, daily posts about cowardly chickenshits hiding behing alias' by such self assured men!

Why don't you just take your ball and go home!  Have mommy dry those "big ole alligator tears", and make you some warm milk!  Have some toast with it, because in the end, you have all proven yourseves to be merely milque-toast in adrift in a sea of estrogen!  Atotally sad, pathetic lot!

really i have to congratulate you on a wonderful assemblage of content free rhetorical tricks that would persuade only the feeble minded and easily led.

your rant is sprinkled with fallacies; ad hominem, straw man, and false dilemmas.

it doesn't change the fact that those who use the alias feature to launch personal attacks are afraid to use their real fake name because it might make them less viable as clients or providers.

by your own logic: if one can't stand the whining, one should stop using the alias feature to launch personal attacks.

I would never worry about it.  I wouldn't post anything under any name that I would worry about.  Boards of any sort are not secure enough to put "important worry material" on.

I've uses an allias here a couple times.  Once to figure out how to do it, the other time to tell a bad pun.  I really only see one situation I'd use an alias (though I might discover more if I think a while):  if I were saying something that might compromise someone else because a reader could connect them to me.

I don't care much either way whether people use aliases or not since only a small handful of folks on here know who I am via this handle (mostly providers I've reviewed) and all them I trust with that info.


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You can point out the obvious to some people as often as you want, they will refuse to see it.

They will continue to deceive themselves that a full collection of reviews and posts DOES NOT provide context and credibility.

They will continue to claim that their use of slurs and false quotes/references is NOT a personal attack, only "the truth".

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I love watching two people ripping each other apart when they don't know who each others identity, and then playing best friends when the alias drops.

It just strikes me as really funny.  Please remember that when you just want to jump down someone's throat.  Plenty of the folks here use a watered down version of MP67's approach of provocation.  I imagine that many of them are perfect gentlemen in the arms of a lady, or are providers with great reviews.

Aliases are a wonderful tool if used well, and not taken too seriously.

is getting ripped by one of your "board buddies" who is hiding behind an alias. you recognize the writing style and sure enough the relevant counter in the top 10 poster list has incremented by one. (yes, i check for that.)

so then there are the questions: to rip back? to respond in a way to assure he/she knows you know? to not respond at all? play the "moral superiority" game of not using an alias?

in the end, alias use is just another toy in this sand box.

i've used them muself to bitch and not out certain matters too widely. i've also used them simply for fun. alias: don't leave home without it.

damn, ALIAS, just thought of Jennifer Garner. must go.....

full collection of 7 reviews, and your 6 months of extensive TER membership, you are one I look up to, and totally trust your seasoned advice.
You are the exception, as you are backed by extensive background, and experience.
I live for each new post, as I can only hope to one day be the seasoned veteran that you are, and possibly share that knowledge with newbies, and and other veterans.  If I could only be you!
I feel that many here are simply jealous of the wisdom you bring with each new post.  I feel that not only should the alias' stop their crude attacks on you, but a bronze statue of your likeness should be commissioned to be erected, and its photo placed on each website.

You are like...like....a god or something!

Brad,

Care to send the old lady to my place? I'm not sure if she is my type or not, so I'd like to do a demo. Beside, while she is gone, you could get a provider to do an outcall to the mansion. See, win-win for everyone!

Ren'man

if you have an alias(to borrow a phrase)'jumping down your throat,me thinks he/she/it would expect a apropos response.(?)

Flame on dude.

Yu're so far UP THERE the air has to be getting scarce and aromatic.

I have 7 reviews, you have none.  That is an infinite ratio.

I have about 180 days here.  You have 1.  That is 180 times more "experience" than whoever you are.

So by YOUR rules for credibility (which I do not agree with) shouldn't you be the one sitting quietly in the corner and keeping quiet?

Or are you "special" and above the rules you preach for everyone else?  Ah!  Clearly you are, "special" does have many connotations.  Or you can't count.  I'm not quite sure which.

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why post advice or ask questions? Supposedly, according to you, no one ever has any credibility in their responses.

you are quite the drama queen.

but that might not be the response i'd choose to give.

i like doing the "not expected" sometimes. now pardon me while i go back to indulging my JG fantasy.....

there's an "alias" i can get behind, or in front of, into and all around.....

I think that for the most part I shall not post using my real TER issued alias any longer.

posting should be fun, entertaining or educational. This is not a place where anyone should really expect anything terribly useful. And it is not a place for anything serious or self relevatory.

It's an anonymous fuck board nothing more.

Why attract the drama of using your real TER issued alias?

I've had too many providers or hobbyists who know me get a hair up their ass about my opinions or my "playfulness" with others. Having to monitor yourself and try to please everyone who knows you by your TER approved alias makes the boards fairly well useless.

now go back and play on the PR board, you have little to add here, or if you do, you have yet to do so!

What do you do here other than call anyone you personally disagree with a 'gina'?

Somehow you have gotten the mistaken impression that your opinion carries any weight with me.

First time posting on an alias here shhhh I'm in the closet, don't open it!

I'm not sure why people bash aliases, when everyone hides under an official Handle that's not your real name.

Your official handles do not necessarily reflect the real person, so how does that make it different from an alias.

In fact, escorts change their names a couple of times when they want to. Hobbyist should be entitled to use their own names and change them whenever they feel they want to.

he doesn't keep track of them all.  That's why he's gotten into very heated arguments with himself when he used one alias to attack another alias he forgot was his own.  

I keep for one specific purpose and use sparingly. It is fun to invent new "personna" to go with each alias.

Some asshats think that using an alias makes what you say "irrelevant". They are lazy and prefer not to contest or refute a point of view, or perhaps lack the intellectual vigor.

Some asshats think that it is not honorable to use an alias. These same asshats post things all the time that potentially reflect on the providers they have reviewed. How honorable is that?

Some asshats think that when someone uses an alias to point out that something is fucked up about them or their post, that aliases are inherently combative. Not so. Many times aliases are used very positively. And just perhaps it is someone who knows or likes them (by their official TER issued alias) who has an issue with them and does not want to hurt their tiny little feelings while pointing out that sometimes, they are an asshat.

Whatever.

I'll play it my way, TYVM.

Don't really see a problem with aliases, as long as they're all in good fun and aren't used to cause problems.  Certainly they can liven things up a bit!

and I have 52 fake IDs with my real name , one for each week of the year, so I can receive  birthday specials  any time I want them.
If anyone wants to know how to disect and find a alias's Ter handle   ...think about it..and remember the most obvious is often the most obscure..Its very easy to determine their TER handle,  without analyzing their word structure.

....but some people have trouble with that concept.  They think they do know who you are if you have the envelope next to your name, but is it your name?

I especially laugh at the small minded people who say, "you have no reviews, you are not credible"....small things for small minds.

I thought I saw it was stated once that only a very small percentage (say 5%) of the total TER membership, post on these boards to begin with.  I could be wrong, but I would not be surprised if that truly were the case.

then turn around and use them like snarky children.  Whatever.

I also try not to use them when jumping someone's shit for being, IMO, stupid (I won't be so thin as to say I have never done this).

However, they are used to provide some security, though I do not consider that security absolute.