Yep, there're people like that.

[ex_rising236]

I participated a small amount in a bit of the name/nym discussion on a post. This is one of the discussions in which we had privileged white men going all that real names were good, and about five minutes into my discussion, I found that I was getting an error -- my profile had been reported, and apparently suspended. There are people like that out there.

If you're using a pseudonym be careful of taking part in any public discussion, whatsoever.

Comments

[ex_rising236]

It's definitely not paranoia.

[copracat]

I'm considering making a 'proper sounding real name' google id and inviting it to plus to make the arguments I want to make in those fora without risking the meaningful id. Which is kind of hilarious and kind of sad.

[silverhare]

I'd like to interact with all the interesting online people I know without outing myself in various ways to the offline people I know; I might have to create something similar.

[rainbow]

i know several people who've done the same (and really, i'd suspect that many of the oh so proper "real names" folks have done the same in the past, since i know a many people who use their real names online most of the time. funny how the real name supporters over there don't seem to be mentioning that, though...