, 2007-04-20
Back when I lived in the Silicon Valley, there was an ongoing employment scam. Prospective employees would show up with perfect resumes and immediately get hired. It would not take long before it was clear that these people did not have the experience stated on their resumes. Within six months they would be fired. However, now they had six months of legitimate experience with real companies that they could reference. Their next jobs might not be as good or glamorous, but it would be much better than if they started with their real resumes.
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Just because I object to the posints of Mr. X the militant racist neo-nazi and with the position of Mr. X the homosexual necro-pedophile doe not mean I can just go and censor them willy nilly.
As a somewhat more practical example, there are several sourceforge members with names similar to my own, and the username I would be most likely to try first has some very bad coding habits. I am sure this person is not impersonating me, but if prospective employers where to check sourceforge to see examples of my coding style it could definitly affect me. It's what makes the internet such a great place.
Of course my primary netname comes from an obscure anime character and I reasonably certain only one other person uses it on the english/german/dutch/italian/spanish/french part of the internet (there is at least one japansese version of 'me', but I can't decipher what they are talking about so I'm not sure of their number.) Few people can claim that kind of uniqueness with their net name.
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