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tocohl
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Out-ing
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Oct 11 00:09 UTC 1991 |
Recently two comments have appeared on M-Net regarding the "out-ing" of
pseudos, both denouncing it. How do you "realies" feel about this concept?
If you knew who a pseudo really was, would you tell the world? Only your
closest friends? No one? Why or why not?
"Pseudo out-ing should be a capital offense." --griz, on M-Net
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bad
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response 1 of 32:
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Oct 11 04:57 UTC 1991 |
To quote a personal hero? :)
I don't see any real reason to out a pseudo, unless someone's hiding behind
a pseudo doing mean and hurtful things. If someone made up a pseudo and
harrassed a user, and I figured out who it was, I'd likely tell the
harrassed, if not the world. Mainly because I can't respect that kind of
cowardice.
If I were privy to the ID of a more creative pseudo, or that of someone
who simply wishes to be a normal, if unknown user, I'd see no reason to
break their cover. I know of at least a few pseudos who really really don't
want to be known, and have good reasons for it. I never press to find
out who these people "really" are, and wouldn't spread it around.
I guess it mostly comes down to whether it's a pseudo I can respect
or not.
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polygon
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response 2 of 32:
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Oct 11 13:46 UTC 1991 |
Re 0. I'm opposed to the death penalty.
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krug
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response 3 of 32:
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Oct 13 21:29 UTC 1991 |
I too am opposed to the death penalty, and fear that it
would be imposed upon me were my true identity to be
revealed. I fled my homeland to escape almost certain
death there, but the tyrannical regime that is in
control of my country has agents even in the United
States.
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pseudo
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response 4 of 32:
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Oct 20 04:33 UTC 1991 |
The self-righteous congratulate themselves for exposing
hypocrisy, 'outing' poor souls who wish simple privacy. They
take little account of the pain they cause, leave little
latitude for human frailty. That someone may view the world
a little differently, they do not wish, they cannot see.{_
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md
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response 5 of 32:
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Oct 23 13:28 UTC 1991 |
I'm astonished to find Professor Krug alive and well and living in
the USA. He was in his 40s when his name first came before the
public in the late 1940s, so he'd be pushing 90 now. At the time,
it was rumored that he'd been shot to death when, in a fit of
madness, he attempted to attack the dictator of his unfortunate
country. I would not be surprised to find Vseslav Botkin (or
"Charles Kinbote" as he calls himself) entering a response here
some day, however.
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krug
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response 6 of 32:
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Oct 24 01:59 UTC 1991 |
Adam Krug is not my real name, of course. Krug was the
protagonist in Nabokov's novel Bend Sinister; I chose his
name as my pseudonym because he in fiction, as I in
reality, was the victim of totalitarian oppression. To
reveal my true name here would make it that much more
likely that I would be found and killed.
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pipeweed
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response 7 of 32:
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Oct 26 17:30 UTC 1991 |
I knew I would find you, Sprchinski, thought you could hide in this
tucked away little system did you? Hahahahahahahahahaha.
Watch your windows, the next Jehovah's Witness could be me.
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krug
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response 8 of 32:
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Oct 29 06:54 UTC 1991 |
I can understand that my story would be taken with grains
of salt, but I assure you that my story is true.
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bad
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response 9 of 32:
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Oct 29 09:44 UTC 1991 |
One tends to wonder, though, why you would say any of this, in that case.
Seems like a stupid tisk.
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polygon
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response 10 of 32:
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Oct 30 11:40 UTC 1991 |
A tisk?
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griz
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response 11 of 32:
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Oct 30 14:13 UTC 1991 |
Quit picking on krug, Brian. :-)
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bad
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response 12 of 32:
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Oct 30 18:09 UTC 1991 |
A tisket, a tasket.
A risk, meant I.
('t' is right next to the 'r', I guess)
I'll pick on anyone who I htink is being silly. :)
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wilber
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response 13 of 32:
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Nov 2 05:13 UTC 1991 |
would like to give a hoot'n hollar to all those who remembah
mahsef. Ah was injured last year on the corn shucker, and Ah
lost mah memory. a couple friends a mahn pointed me this way.
Could anyones remahnd me some of my lahf story?
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bad
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response 14 of 32:
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Feb 25 12:38 UTC 1992 |
There will be many gala unveilings immediately prior to my moving
out-of-state in May. :)
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polygon
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response 15 of 32:
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Feb 27 20:06 UTC 1992 |
Hmmmm ....
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griz
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response 16 of 32:
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Feb 28 04:41 UTC 1992 |
Hmm, indeed.
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bad
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response 17 of 32:
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Feb 28 13:38 UTC 1992 |
Both of the previous responders were my pseudos.
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keats
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response 18 of 32:
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Feb 28 14:18 UTC 1992 |
i knew it all along.
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remmers
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response 19 of 32:
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Feb 29 04:44 UTC 1992 |
The current response is my pseudo.
,
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bad
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response 20 of 32:
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Feb 29 18:16 UTC 1992 |
Notice his triple-layering McGuffin-laced trail of deception.
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spite
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response 21 of 32:
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Mar 4 04:06 UTC 1992 |
Brian, you've been several good friends.
;)
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reach
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response 22 of 32:
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Mar 13 05:51 UTC 1992 |
The user is asked to remember that all other users may in fact be his or
her own pseudos, depending on the depth of the user's delusions.
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remmers
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response 23 of 32:
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Mar 13 11:41 UTC 1992 |
I resent that, and so do I.
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reach
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response 24 of 32:
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Mar 15 01:15 UTC 1992 |
Perhaps you are merely telling yourself that.
In any case, your pseudo dresses you funny.
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