DaveC426913
Valued Senior Member
This poor subforum has sat unloved for almost four years. How much can you say about members who are all secret identities anyway?
Does anyone wonder how many of your fellow members are not who they purport to be?
A couple of caveats:
Gender is the most obviously pliable trait.
Sometimes nationality is *assumed* and tends to be corrected. (Not sure why anyone would deliberately misdirect about their nationality.)
Age is often implied, though few really care.
Expertise is often misrepresented though usually by implication, rather than by explicit claim.
Can you think of any more traits that are often a source of misdirection? Actually, misdirection is the wrong word. Anonymity would be a better word. No one has to defend their right to an online identity.
Some members are explicit about what they wish their identity to be (though that says nothing about whether it's accurate).
Some may simply be assumed by others to be of a certain identity, and the member has no need to disabuse anyone of that notion.
Some go to great lengths to misdirect, yet, oddly, make no effort to hide the fact that they are misdirecting.
Thoughts?
(P.S. Alerting mods, in case thread is way inappropriate.)
Does anyone wonder how many of your fellow members are not who they purport to be?
A couple of caveats:
- Just for fun.
- It is everybody's right to maintain whatever facade they wish, and not ours to judge. So if you're gonna speculate, it behooves you to be respectful.
- Also, I'd suggest that, for anyone who wishes to not be speculated about - and says so - their wishes should be respected.
Gender is the most obviously pliable trait.
Sometimes nationality is *assumed* and tends to be corrected. (Not sure why anyone would deliberately misdirect about their nationality.)
Age is often implied, though few really care.
Expertise is often misrepresented though usually by implication, rather than by explicit claim.
Can you think of any more traits that are often a source of misdirection? Actually, misdirection is the wrong word. Anonymity would be a better word. No one has to defend their right to an online identity.
Some members are explicit about what they wish their identity to be (though that says nothing about whether it's accurate).
Some may simply be assumed by others to be of a certain identity, and the member has no need to disabuse anyone of that notion.
Some go to great lengths to misdirect, yet, oddly, make no effort to hide the fact that they are misdirecting.
Thoughts?
(P.S. Alerting mods, in case thread is way inappropriate.)
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