It is astonishingly condescending and hypocritically self-serving It's a disqualifying position in and of itself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
If you prefer to write pseudononymously you should have that option. Is that seriously the point being debated here?
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Replying to @GabrielObray @arthur_affect and
If I were gonna write pseudonymously, I would not choose My First Name + Middle Name as the pseudonym. That would just be asking to be caught out. *Especially* if I also published about similar topics under My First Name + Last Name, and all three names were easy to find out.
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Replying to @avram @arthur_affect and
Or if you start out with a rando blog that gains national attention that you never expected?
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Replying to @GabrielObray @arthur_affect and
I made this decision way back in the ’90s, when I first started out online. Do I want to put the effort into keeping a distinct online identity, or not? I decided not, because I knew real pseudonymity took a lot of effort. Even when I started my rando blog in 1998.
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Replying to @avram @GabrielObray and
Moreover, it puts a cap on how successful you can get By the time people are actually citing your blog in mainstream articles and you have actual famous people among your fans, you've probably got to make a choice either to hang it up or to come out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
I'm trying to think of exceptions and there aren't many Even pseudonymous writers back when information traveled at the speed of horseback were usually outed surprisingly quickly (George Eliot came out after writing her very first book)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
The biggest successful secret identity story I can think of is Belle du Jour/Brooke Magnanti, but that was back in the 2000s, before Web 2.0 really existed And she still outed herself in '09 because she was sure she was going to be outed involuntarily soon if she didn't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
What's incredible here is that the outing itself isn't seen as the problem, that our society isn't too top-heavy, that the responsibility has to be on the individual to maintain anonymity.
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Replying to @GabrielObray @avram and
I don't know what the hell that's supposed to mean I like Magnanti and think it's a shame she couldn't live the double life she wanted but it's hard to imagine any society that both makes it possible for her to get rich and famous as an author and impossible for her to be outed
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Some sort of utopian "non-top-heavy" society where, I guess, people all kind of minded their own business and information didn't want to be both free and expensive wouldn't have had a place for her to write a bestselling tell-all in the first place You take the bad with the good
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