Multiple Aliases on Netflix Community

It seems pretty straightforward to set up as many aliases as anyone would want on Ning and this community in particular. I was hoping to start a discussion about this and get people's thoughts on the subject.

Do you think many people are on here in different guises?
Do you think this practice is deceitful? Or not?
Why would people choose to adopt different aliases?

Tags: aliases, deceit

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Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on September 4, 2008 at 10:54pm: Perhaps the attachment of "Uncle" is up for grabs, now that it is not being used....

I'm not sure why that happens, but I've noticed that it takes a while for all networks to show up on the profile.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by beeswax on September 5, 2008 at 1:23am: Perhaps the attachment of "Uncle" is up for grabs

But Howard is so young that if he used it we'd all be thinking of him as that uncle our grandparents had really late in life so that he went to the same grade school we did.

Permalink Reply by The Real Uncle Bob on September 5, 2008 at 8:35pm: There is another claimant.
I first became known as "Uncle" Bob Martin circa 1983, a name bestowed upon me by Dave Everitt, co-editor of Fangoria. But in the online space, a search for Uncle Bob Martin leads you to this programming guru, whose twitter ID is unclebobmartin.

He is politically at the opposite end of the spectrum from me, so I asked him, some time ago, to find a way to distinguish himself.

Permalink Reply by Arcane Pretext on September 5, 2008 at 8:00pm: I'm cool, I'm hip.

I can change my name/avatar as well.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cheryl Bailey on September 5, 2008 at 1:49am: If people choose to be several different avatars then they have a lot more time on their hands than I do. I don't know if it could be called any more deceitful than others who have one avatar and are deceitful about who that avatar is for whatever reasons they have. It's definitely interesting though.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on September 5, 2008 at 1:56am: Maybe they want to act out their multiple personality disorder online?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by pihkal020 on September 5, 2008 at 3:42am: I don't know if it could be called any more deceitful than others who have one avatar and are deceitful about who that avatar is for whatever reasons they have.

Could you explain this? I don't understand.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cheryl Bailey on September 5, 2008 at 4:59pm: Okay, say if you are not honest in anything you say with the one avatar you have how can that be any better than someone who is dishonest with multiple avatars? Both are still dihonest don't you think.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by The Professor on September 5, 2008 at 5:12pm: That's certainly true. People don't need to divulge their personal lives with everyone on line, but they should be honest in their on-line associations and behave consistently with everyone. This community is way too small for people to play both sides of the fence, which seems to be what was going on around here. I just wish we could all be honest with each other.

You just can't try to be all things to all people, even on line. It reminds me of the person who 'friended me' on Netflix, and then asked all of their others friends to ding my reviews -- not realizing that one of those people would tell me about it.

Oh, and BTW, Hi Cheryl! I haven't spoken to you in ages.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by pihkal020 on September 5, 2008 at 8:06pm: I just wish we could all be honest with each other.

Beach Blanket Bingo.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dollardraw on September 7, 2008 at 6:52pm: "that's the name of the game!"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cheryl Bailey on September 5, 2008 at 8:49pm: Yes, Professor, I agree with you, you can not play both sides of the fence nor should you have to devulge anything about yourself that is uncomfortable. The way I am on line is pretty much who I am to people who know me personally. I even put my real name and state out there. People who try to sabatoge someone's reviews have some real issues they need to deal with. When two people went over everyone of my reviews in one evening and marked unhelpful it must have taken lots of time. Honesty is always best in my opinion. Do you think if a person feels they must resort to deception they might have some serious issues going on in their life and this might make them feel safe? Even though, they are usually eventually found out.; ▶ Reply to This