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Originally Posted by anamardoll
This is pretty standard fare. It's one of the reasons why a lot of authors use multiple personas -- one for promoting themselves as inoffensively as possible and one for just bopping around on the internet.
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I've always avoided doing that: It seemed as if I was hiding, as if I was too cowardly to stand for the things I believed in. To an extent, I even admit I feel the same way about any web-based pseudonym: If you aren't brave enough to tell me who you are, why should I believe/trust anything you say? Why should I believe you when you say "Hitler was wrong"... maybe you don't really believe that? (I think that's why so much web discourse is ultimately doomed to failure, with no way to know who you're discoursing with, or what they really believe. Fodder for another thread.)
But it seems the entire web has decided the digital equivalent of Guy Fawkes masks are perfectly fine; every day is Halloween. So maybe the new promotional tool for the web is multiple personalities, one for every use: The business persona (straight money-changing for services rendered); the agent/promoter/cheerleader; the "Clark Kent" (public persona, no one knows your true identity) and maybe the "Max Headroom" (public "id," do and say whatever you want with no fear of reprisal).