LetsFlymdk said
To an extent. If your loss of anonymity was stictly involuntary, though, you'd expect people to seize their chances to start over. Take Turt, for example -- permabanned from oldguild, comes here and elects to keep the same name. He could've registered as HobboBono, no one would've been the wiser, and he wouldn't have started out on thin ice. Or (to segue and not to associate), consider the saga of Darth Warman. If the goal was to cheekily-sexually-harass people from a curtain of anonymity, why use variations on the same name over and over?And apologies again for mentioning *anybody* in the same breath as Warman. If I'm talking about 'a certain type of Internet user' in this whole line of thinking, I mean to include myself. Point is, we're not locked in if we're embracing the cage. We like our notoriety. We like our smug, undeserved sense of accomplishment. We like our circumspect kudos when we waste breath on shitty reviews for amateur fiction. We love our identity.
That's oversimplification. The point is that you can ascertain a LOT by someone's post, even if the username is simply a placeholder.
If I was to list out every single post you made in Roleplaying sections, Off-Topic and Spam, I could probably tell you a few things about yourself you might not even know. The only exception to this would be if someone is being willfully deceptive, but that's usually not necessary online because of the implicit anonymity.
