Timeline for MO policy regarding pseudonyms that are other people's real name
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| Nov 4, 2019 at 16:04 | comment | added | David E Speyer | @WillSawin Clearly, this process can be iterated, and can also be defined for limit ordinals. I wonder what the smallest ordinal $\alpha$ is, such that the internet cannot generate controversy of type $\alpha$? :-) | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 21:31 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @StefanKohl : I am still not in favor of laying down Code of Conduct rules if they are not necessary. Perhaps I am unduly influenced by the current uproar surrounding the recent StackExchange Code of Conduct changes, but I think that pre-emptively laying down poorly phrased rules of behavior sets the wrong tone for the site. | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 20:59 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | @TimothyChow Having a rule does not mean it always needs to be enforced -- it just means that one can refer to it when there is need. -- So there would be exactly zero additional burden of 'policing', but just an additional means to resolve conflicts. | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 20:37 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | I'm not in favor of introducing unnecessary rules. "Homer Simpson" could be confused with a real name, because there are real people with that name. The same applies to "John Doe" or "Smith" or a host of other innocuous pseudonyms. Why burden ourselves with the job of policing every username that could be confused with a real name? That seems to create more problems than it solves. | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 14:27 | comment | added | Will Sawin | @StefanKohl In the past the question of whether something is likely to spark controversy has itself caused much controversy. | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 13:42 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | Why not just implement the simple rule that the user name should either be the real name or a pseudonym which can neither be confused with a real name nor is likely to offend anyone or to spark controversy? | |
| Nov 2, 2019 at 1:01 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |