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Real Names

I'm not a huge fan of my real name being attached to things on the Internet.
As Google Buzz recently found out, it's not something I'm alone on.

Posted 3 years ago by Sir Grim... Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • What he said.
    Posted 3 years ago by Warhead the Grumpy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 3 years ago by EgIantine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Duly noted, and we might change it (but will at least warn people).

    In future, you will be able to have multiple characters per account and forums are "meta" re role-playing aspects of the game, so we decided to make the *account* and not the *character* that is doing the posting here.
    Posted 3 years ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What about an account level username which you could post under? I could also match your most active playername (if you wanted it to). Best of both worlds?

    Or, allow the person to choose the playername they wish to post as. Maybe they have an evil persona and a good one and like to post on both sides :)
    Posted 3 years ago by Jason Subscriber! | Permalink
  • most active playername, default playername, or choose the playername - all these sound good. :)

    ooc, do you need our real names at all? i guess you can glean them secretly through facebook connect, but maybe never surface them?
    Posted 3 years ago by EgIantine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm just mulling this over, and while I wouldn't particularly want my real name visible to all, it IS good to be able to recognise my friends from Faceboke. However, as I haven't actually played at all yet, I don't know if I'll be able to find those friends within the game and collaborate with them, or randomly with other players.

    Sorry if this is muddying the water, I'm just thinking out loud based on what little I know about Glitch so far.
    Posted 3 years ago by Warhead the Grumpy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just an agreement that I would prefer my real name also not be attached to these posts.

    (Although at this early stage, it's not such a big deal.)
    Posted 3 years ago by clare Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am just giving this a bump back to the top of the list.

    I really wish I could control how my name displays. Here, in the forum.

    I also wonder if you might get more comments from people if they could post under their game names instead of their real names.
    Posted 3 years ago by clare Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Agreed, if anyone has time to just switch the forum display to our character names (first created character name, randomly selected character name, whatever) before another wave of people comes, it would be super awesome?
    Posted 3 years ago by EgIantine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • same here... I would prefer to post under a nick name.
    Posted 3 years ago by Nevet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you!
    Posted 3 years ago by clare Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Aha!
    Posted 3 years ago by quasistoic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • THANK YOU
    Posted 3 years ago by EgIantine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Welcome!
    Posted 3 years ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink