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

32 responses total.

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. 

Re 0.  I'm opposed to the death penalty.

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.

   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.{_

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.

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.

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.

I can understand that my story would be taken with grains
of salt, but I assure you that my story is true.

One tends to wonder, though, why you would say any of this, in that case.
Seems like a stupid tisk.

A tisk?

Quit picking on krug, Brian.  :-)

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. :)

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?

There will be many gala unveilings immediately prior to my moving 
out-of-state in May. :)

Hmmmm ....

Hmm, indeed.

Both of the previous responders were my pseudos.

i knew it all along.

The current response is my pseudo.
,

Notice his triple-layering McGuffin-laced trail of deception.

Brian, you've been several good friends.
;)

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.

I resent that, and so do I.

Perhaps you are merely telling yourself that.
In any case, your pseudo dresses you funny.

Yeah? Well, your mother wears combat boots.

This response has been erased.

Bluberry's are Blu,
Or maybe they're Red...
All of these pseudos
play tricks with the head.

One could have ignored them,
When they were but few,
Now, being so many, 
What's a pseudo to do?

From copx to dans,
Most berrys as well,
From whence come these pseudos?
From what twisted hell?

The poets, the lovers,
The paranoid wrecks,
A morass of pseudos 
Continue to vex.

A few are quite welcome, 
Well thought of and hale;
The rest - yes, the masses
beside these few pale.

Mulberry, queen pseudo
Has, all on her own
Gained a cult of sad groupies
(each day, it has grown)

While crimson is missing,
She is quite adult,
And perhaps simply wishes
To avoid her own cult.

Spite had his moments,
alas, not for long:
Soon kiter, and kiterr,
True pests came along.

In parting, I say,
As a mere pseudo knave, 
*All pseudos are welcome!*
(but please...behave.)

This response has been erased.

<griz applauds>

Why, that was simply a charming poem. Really.

Dear me, I didn't know I was "missing"!

You must not drink milk. :)

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