dreyfiz

GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself.

All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts.

My relationship with GitHub significantly predated my dalliance with this one employer years ago. I trusted GitHub. My GitHub account was a formative part of my identity. I still can’t believe it and I still can’t forgive them. I lost some of my sparkle that day.

So?

Impressive! I've been using Fluentd a lot, will look at this.

p.s. Search for "complaince" and fix the typo :-)

It's impossible for me to be as anonymous as I like on Quora, because they require a government ID with the name I want to use. Which isn't even that weird! It's my legal last name, plus my childhood nickname for a first name.

Your name just didn't provoke their Real Name Gestapo.

Yes. Within hours of registering my account, Quora emailed to let me know that my name sounds fake and that I have to prove my identity with government ID, or I can't use Quora on an equal basis with other users. It really burns me!

I think part of their reasoning is "hey, we have prominent users! Let's make sure everyone knows it!" But Ask MetaFilter has famous users. They are in no way diminished by my pseudonymity.

Plus I know how to change my name. I can spend $100 at the courthouse, and get an ID that would force Quora to let me use my preferred name. My point is, Quora doesn't get to be the impetus for my legal name change. I don't need Quora's permission to call myself what I prefer to be called.

That's a false dichotomy.

Ask MetaFilter is a much better Yahoo Answers, but I can be pseudonymous there. Also, my pseudonym is much closer to a real identity than what's on my driver's license.

I don't have any real reason to fear sharing my "real name" with Quora. I'm lucky. But I'm not the only person in the world. Good thing I'm not trans or a religious dissident. Good thing the only thing stopping me from contributing to Quora is my ornery nature. I would hate to for the world to miss out on my Quora contributions for a good reason.

Good thing Quora doesn't have my "real name" is all I'm saying. I have an interest in privacy, even though I use the same pseudonym as my identity on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. And Ask MetaFilter. And so many other places. I shouldn't have to beg to use my preferred name on Quora's bulletin board, regardless of my reasons. It's none of their business.

There's nothing about a "real names" policy that automatically turns a shitposter into a quality contributor. There are plenty of reasons not to wear a target on your back and self-doxx. Today's misadventure is one very good reason.

I'm experiencing a sense of schadenfruede because I'm embittered by Quora's arrogant "real names" policy. They won't "let me" contribute.

Nothing insightful. I'm just here to kick them while they're down.

Being looked at by whom?

What the expletive! (Awesome, really didn’t see it coming though!)

Yeah, do you have a composer.json in the root of your repo? Buildpack will detect a PHP app...

I loved this, thank you. I never knew how the abolitionists managed to pass the slave trade act until now.

That's just like Perl to have a literary name like Perl::Critic :-)

Nitpicking: if you're keeping the name, pick a canonical way to spell it and "enforce" that everywhere :-)

Repo name: Git-Enforcer

Logo at top of readme: git ENFORCER

call-to-action button: "Install Git Enforcer Free"

shields.io version badge: "GitEnforcer"

Which one is it? Pick one to be known by!