Life In 19x19

I can't think of a good reason for a user to have multiple accounts on a bulletin board. <snip> I would favor a real-name policy on this BB.
One's own lack of imagination of appreciation of people's situations and cultures doesn't mean other people might not have a good reason. Perhaps Salman ...

Thanks for the responses. It appears that whilst opinion is divided on the degree of sandbagging of playing at different strengths with different situations/accounts, people agree the privacy of aliases should be respected, even if punishments apply to all accounts (on which mixed views ...

daal, interesting that you hold the anonymity above continued use of the services. Regarding the blitz sandbagger example, on KGS the admins seem to condone if not encourage humans making different accounts for different strengths/modes of play, but on OGS before the Nova merge the terms of service ...

Or what if a person has an account for chatting on KGS and gets in some heated arguments about politics etc and is banned. Should their other accounts, which they use for playing rather than heated discussions and have never behaved badly also be banned?
I don't know all details of KGS banning ...

DrStraw wrote:And what about people with dual personalities who don't even know about one another?

That would be interesting, but I doubt it happens much.

I would like to know what other people think about aliases and anonymity on go forums and servers. First of all I think people should be able to remain anonymous if they wish (contrast with Facebook's Real Name policy). I also think that one human should be allowed to make multiple accounts and ...