It’s very common in other forums I’m a part of for literally everyone except me to be various levels of pseudonymous and I find it pretty rare that people use their real name, especially for giving spicy takes that people disagree with. I’m actually pretty pleasantly surprised by the number of people in EA who give spicy takes with their real name attached.
I think there might be an important difference between pseudonymous and burner accounts here. I basically have no problem with consistent pseudonymous identities, whereas I share the feeling that having a bunch of throwaway accounts posting anonymous complaints is kind of bad.
Yeah I think that’s right. Though it’s hard to know if the burner or throwaway accounts belong to people who otherwise post on the EA Forum under a pseudonymous account—it could be burners created by people who otherwise post under their real name or burners created by people who don’t really use the EA Forum account.
I think there might be an important difference between pseudonymous and burner accounts here. I basically have no problem with consistent pseudonymous identities, whereas I share the feeling that having a bunch of throwaway accounts posting anonymous complaints is kind of bad.
Yeah I think that’s right. Though it’s hard to know if the burner or throwaway accounts belong to people who otherwise post on the EA Forum under a pseudonymous account—it could be burners created by people who otherwise post under their real name or burners created by people who don’t really use the EA Forum account.