= Сообщение: 5502 из 7128 ====================================== FTSC_PUBLIC = От : andrew clarke 3:633/267 14 Feb 21 05:47:28 Кому : All 14 Feb 21 05:47:28 Тема : Real names FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=3:633/267+60281ec3 На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=1:229/426+56E0B7C2 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: LATIN1 ================================= Ответ: area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=1:229/426+310A3108 ============================================================================== 13 Feb 21 10:47, you wrote to Dan Clough:
NA> We do have somewhat of a last kick-at-the-can of Echomail "control" NA> known as an Elist where one can list a moderator, rules, real names or NA> not, etc. with a central system but I do not see how its practically NA> enforceable.
I have no idea whether your real name is Nick Andre. It probably is but I do not care.
The "real names" policy of some FidoNet echos has always revolved around elitist gatekeeping nonsense and is completely unenforcable, now more than ever.
The commercial social media site Twitter has been running for at least 15 years and does not require real names, despite the pleas of a minority - mostly from a handful of people who signed up for accounts years after the site began.
Facebook no longer tries to enforce real names in Germany (and perhaps now worldwide) since courts ruled that Facebook's real name policy violated Germans' right to privacy.
And there are good reasons not to require real names. Victims of stalking or domestic violence commonly use aliases online.
Now, presumably we don't want to ban those people from FTSC_PUBLIC or other FidoNet echos. In which case we accept that pseduonyms are actually acceptable and don't need to be justified, and so therefore we have no rational justification for banning mononyms either, because at that point it makes absolutely no difference what someone's psuedonym is. I suppose all we can ask is people be consistent, within reason.
And there do happen to be people around the world with a mononym as their legal name. Two English-speaking people with mononyms that spring to mind are the magician Teller (of the Penn & Teller duo) and Australian IT journalist Stilgherrian.
This would've been a problem for them over the years in the unlikely event they tried to login to any BBS running Maximus, which from memory was hard-coded to require new users to enter two names to register. I don't think Maximus was alone there either. A lot of web sites have the same problem. Many of those web sites also have issues with two character surnames (common in Asia) or the use of apostrophes (common in Ireland), among other things.
And before anyone jumps to conclusions, I'm not defending trolls. If people have a problem with someone's attitude on here, that's a clearly separate issue.
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