I have no problem reviewing under my real name. But all other things being equal, I'd prefer not to, because I'd prefer to keep a consistant Internet identity. Not to decrease my accountability, but to increase it -- so that people know that the same girl who's been shooting her mouth off in your fanfic thread is the one who is giving a bad review to the Lima Bean and Tang diet book, or whatever.
Fair enough. And there are users who were known entirely by their handles, but consistently by those handles, for years. I don't -- as I mentioned -- have a problem with the handles; I do have a problem with what I see as unjustified paranoia, although perhaps that's not the way I phrased it.
And since my main online identity these days is the one that has the fanfic legal issues you mention, I don't want to associate it and my real name in the same place. So if I hafta put my real name, I hafta NOT put the name that people are likely to actually know. Which makes the review marginally less useful/credible. But is not that big a deal, really, since I almost never review on Amazon anyway.
This all makes sense to me, as well. The "But this is how I'm known" answer is an answer that falls outside of my original rant, but it's a well-taken point.
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Date: 2004-10-26 03:32 pm (UTC)Fair enough. And there are users who were known entirely by their handles, but consistently by those handles, for years. I don't -- as I mentioned -- have a problem with the handles; I do have a problem with what I see as unjustified paranoia, although perhaps that's not the way I phrased it.
And since my main online identity these days is the one that has the fanfic legal issues you mention, I don't want to associate it and my real name in the same place. So if I hafta put my real name, I hafta NOT put the name that people are likely to actually know. Which makes the review marginally less useful/credible. But is not that big a deal, really, since I almost never review on Amazon anyway.
This all makes sense to me, as well. The "But this is how I'm known" answer is an answer that falls outside of my original rant, but it's a well-taken point.