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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] azurelunatic 2011-07-17 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
I'm going to give them a little more time. But yes. Sometimes you don't want to be found by everybody and all their relatives, sometimes you just want to hang out with the people who you've given the name you're using, and not be recognized even if someone does mention you in front of someone who knows your legal name.
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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] azurelunatic 2011-07-17 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
I've started working from the assumption that the name my friends call me when hollering across the street to get my attention is my real name, and the other one is just there for business purposes and sentimental value, like the poor kid who gets saddled with Jefferson Hilary Cecil Erickson III and offers to shortsheet/punch/crack/stab anyone who calls him anything other than Jeff.
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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).
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2011-08-13 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It ensures that bad behavior *can* have more serious consequences.

If someone calls me a soggy beermat and a limp dicksmack online as part of an isolated incident, I am probably not going to be motivated to locate their workplace and tell their boss that they've been behaving poorly on the internet, and there's no guarantee that their boss will even care.

If someone contacted [staff profile] denise and said, "Look, one of your volunteers is making an ass of themselves on the internet, look look look!" depending on what exactly it was she might laugh in their face, or maybe depending on what exactly I did, take me aside and say, "Hey, what part of 'do not engage' were you forgetting there? Do I need to get out the *big* Teaching Stick?"

If someone had contacted Management from my job at the Call Center of Doom, she would have laughed at them, because she knows me and knows the quality of my work. If someone had contacted the Queen Bee there, I'd have probably been fired on the spot, because she didn't know me or the quality of my work, was inclined to accuse me of falsifying my hours and said that she had talked to the manager on duty that night when she had not, and me coming to her attention via a stranger from outside the company (no matter how stupid the offense) would mean that I was Causing Trouble.

God only knows what would have happened if someone from the Local Domain Shop had been told that I was being a bitch on the internet, because we weren't supposed to have the sort of online presence that could get linked back to work.
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