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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2011-07-13 11:55 pm

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[personal profile] mad_maudlin 2011-07-14 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
I think what bothers me about the G+ naming policy is how condescending it is. We The Google have decided that pseuds and nicks are bad, so we're not going to let you use them. Your choices and opinions don't matter to We The Google. We The Google are the only one who can judge you.

I'm honestly >this close< to just deleting my profile and calling it all a bad job.
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[personal profile] mad_maudlin 2011-07-17 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
It just seems OBVIOUS that not everybody you know belongs in one big pile: there are members of my extremely Catholic family and members of my boyfriend's extremely Pagan family who would quite probably shed blood if they met each other. (Heck, the last time both my grandfathers were in the same house, they threatened to kill one another.) The Circles option shows they're at least aware that different people need different filters, but I don't see the need to presuppose that anyone using something besides their legal name on the Internet is up to no good. (Don't even get me started on the loaded term that is "real name.")

Yes, the point of using a pseud is so that not everyone can find me. I don't see why that's automatically a bad thing.
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[personal profile] krait 2011-07-17 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
So far I have spent 29 years on Planet Earth (and its otherplanar sister-planet, Planet Blogosphere) without joining anything under My Real Name; and I intend to carry on that way, because it seems to be working. So far no one has stolen my identity or fiscal information, harassed me over some past real or imagined slight, found out about my fanfiction hobby, learnt inappropriate details of my sexual identity or reading habits, or tracked me down in order to shove daily nonupdates about their sproggen down my throat... I think I'd like that state of affairs to continue! :D If it means living without a new Google product, well, I'll just have to suffer the loss. Woe. (sarcasm!mode)

[personal profile] mad_maudlin's above comment about Google's naming policy reading as condescending reminds me of the gigantic wankstorm in some online RPG fandom when the PTB decided that only real names could be used on the forums... Let's hope it ends the same way.

(The best summary anyone made of that mess was, paraphrased, "This does not eliminate bad behaviour on the forums. It only ensures that bad behaviour will have more serious consequences." I wholeheartedly agree, and any company that wants to convince me otherwise can suck it offer its refutational reasoning on a public, anonymous forum for my consideration, or else accept that the current objections are valid.)
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[personal profile] mad_maudlin 2011-07-17 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
I think you're talking about Blizzard, which wanted to link World of Warcraft accounts with Facebook. And yeah, a lot of the narratives that came out of that from women, POC and queer players make it OBVIOUS why people should have the option not to present that information on the internet. I wonder who at Google is even aware of that conversation.
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[personal profile] krait 2011-07-19 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! Blizzard! I kept thinking it was vaguely WoW-related, but my brain kept giving me Wizards of the Coast, which I was pretty sure weren't involved. Thank you! :D

wonder who at Google is even aware of that conversation

I dunno if anyone is (not even really sure how big the company is), but someone ought to forward them the relevant links! Or at least a decent memo with a summary thereof. Many of those narratives were quite impactful, I thought; especially the sheer number of them (and the number, on the side of "where's the problem?", who were Middle Class White Males).