Anonymous Advice

[Saltheart]

I guess about 9 years ago when I took the name Saltheart for fishing sites , everyone was signing up with cool internet names. I had friends who called me Saltheart do to all the sailing I did as early as 1983 so i also used it as my internet fishing name. After almost a decade , people know who I am so there's no hiding behind a neame.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

I guess about 9 years ago when I took the name Saltheart for fishing sites , everyone was signing up with cool internet names. I had friends who called me Saltheart do to all the sailing I did as early as 1983 so i also used it as my internet fishing name. After almost a decade , people know who I am so there's no hiding behind a neame.

That is interesting because if you remember back to the day when a lot of us first started to meet online (WMI) a lot of the "Joe Q" names were sucked up, Mike P, Dave S, Mike S, John R (go figure), etc... As we were known by these names a lot of 'em just stuck and we often used the same names on multiple sites as that was what were were known by... So for some, these annonymous names were used because even then some of the "Joe Q"s were already taken... I think there was a Mike W back then too...

[Mike P]

Back when John, Saltheart, #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& and the rest of us "originals" stumbled on that WMI site, misinformation used to bother me a lot more than it does now. Led to some nasty flame wars.

Now, I figure, why bother. Unless someone's blathering BS will get a reader hurt or worse, I just figure, let them find out for themselves--it ain't worth it. Most of the time anyway. Sometimes I still yield to temptation