Author: Amicitia Stone
Date: 05:53:35 04/14/01
Go up one level in this thread
Needless to say I've been to quite a few forums in my time and 90% of people don't use their real names. They mostly use a nick name like "chessfun". There are a few chess forums out there for one reason or another that use real names. But other than those chess forums, most other forums on the net use nick names. That's just an accepted thing amongst most internet users. Personally I see nothing wrong with using a nick name. Your under no obligation what-so-ever to use your real name. What matters to me is the quality of what is written, not the name under which it is written. The idea of showing people's IP addys for all to see isn't exactly a great idea either here's why: -_Most_ of peoples IP's change all the time, whenever they log on to the net. So showing them off really doesn't make a difference -I have a static IP addy, and I would not like it if everyone could see it since it doesn't change. -If you really want to, it takes about 30 seconds to go on the net and find an anonymous web-browser which will simply block your IP from showing. Proxy servers also do this if I'm not mistaken... The other two ideas that where talked about are ok. You will never get a perfect forum where everyone behaves nicely. Of course there is one way of doing it. Make a private forum and only allow certain people in :) Since anyone can sign-up here you will always see a few jerks. To be honest, concidering the size of this forum, I think it's very well behaved.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.