I am on the net since 1998, in france, since i am over 60 years i dont realy are a programmer.
I do not think thad the simple fact of bearing a screename is "faking" , personaly i have a screenname since the beginning (98) artcore.
Aparently it's pleasing much poeple and since i dident deposited as a brand , others started using it , so thad it happend to me thad in certain circumstances it wasent available anymore , so generaly i put the member number of my adagp membership 141666( French copyright protection association)
Generaly i think whe should be tolerant toward's the use of avatars and screennames !
The content plagiarism point is an interesting one for me. More notably in the earlier days of the web -- circa late 90's -- I periodically read some content-rich web sites which mysteriously "up and disappeared" for no discernable reason (probably the site operator got bored or couldn't afford the hosting).
After I noticed this happen a few times with websites that I liked, I started crawling small websites with great content -- and burned archives of them to a CD. I have a ton of these CDs at this point. In one case, I replaced a site that vanished with a "similar" site that had my own look and feel, but the original author's content (and proper credit for the work). My intention was generally to preserve content when these sites disappear.
Of course, this is harder in the age of dynamic content, and less relevent in an era of cheap internet hosting. I quit doing it a while back.
One person had said "None of the Above", yet all Four of us had said we misrepresented ourselves online at some time (100%.)
So,
when someone selects "None of the Above", the script logic should turn
off all the other choices, else you get silly errors like that. I was
impressed that 100% of us by then had said "we fake things", but then
someone had said "hain't done nuthin'" so we got 'im.
==
The poll didn't ask how or why we faked ourselves.
I've posted under pseudonyms, which makes you fake. You probably want
to distinguish between people "faking their true name to preserve
anonymity" and people doing it for more mischievous reasons. I had fun
posting as a black-haired, green-eyed girl (all false) but that was,
um, a sociological experiment, yes. (Revealing, sadly. "she" only had
to suggest she was a knockout, and they wrote (in DROVES) to her as if
it were true ... sigh.)
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