Barrie Nicoll wrote:Back to this old chestnut yet again. Whats the big deal with pseudonyms ? I use my real name on here but get accused of using a false one, personally I really don't care who anyone is or what name they use.
As far as I'm aware I have never met anyone from either forum in the real world, nor am I likely to, so names are totally irrelevant anyway.
I do notice some i9ncomplete names on this forum, but that is not a problem for me, why isn't it a problem for the members who are concerned about the use of pseudonyms on the other forum ? Bit of a double standard really.
Post on here a while back about how much entertainment this forum was giving to DL, now the same members appear to be getting a similar value in reverse...another double standard really.
As you know I post on both forums, and each has its own appeal for me. I find it rather childish of both forums to make 'playground' remarks about the other, and I know for a fact that members from the other forum have left there with bad feeling so yet another case of double standards. Looking forward to the inevitable abuse....
I am not getting into the forum slagging match. I do not look at the other site and don't know or care what they write on that.
To answer your point about names. I am BarryW and was that when pseudonyms were allowed and have not changed it because everyone knows who I am, I make no secret of it or what business I am in.
As for not meeting anyone on the forum, perhaps it is time for another forum get-together. We have not had one since the days of PaulB. Many of us have met, know each other and have always enjoyed meeting up over a beer or two (or three......) no matter how heated posts have got we can still sink a drink together and that has to be a good thing.