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

[reginagiraffe]

Is feedback annonymous?

[elizabeth [ctyalcove.org]]

Not sure, but I would err on the side of saying probably not.

[reginagiraffe]

Then you can't say there's no danger in giving feedback with a pseudonymous user name.

Okay, maybe they're run by different groups, but surely there's some communication and what's to prevent the name enforcement people from looking at the feedback?

[elizabeth [ctyalcove.org]]

Because of the fact that they are different sets of people, and because of the fact that doing name enforcement requires already having a complaint filed. Unless you're suggesting that names enforcement people will look at the separate feedback stream (when they're supposed to be busy working on complaints), go look up profiles, file complaints against them, and then mark the profiles suspended. I very much doubt people will be that malicious and motivated.

I suppose it's a risk, but it's not that big a risk IMHO.