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Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
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#22I was banned by Quora for not agreeing to repeated edits to MY OWN question. Reason? VANDALISM. Mind boggling.
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#23I'm always amazed by the lack of historical perspective that "real name" policies entail. Like, holy shit, how many historical people used pseudonyms well before the internet because impactful speech can be a very dangerous thing to the speaker. And yes I know you can be anonymous on Quora, but that's only useful if you trust that no government entities can lean on Quora for information. (HINT: shouldn't trust that).
Just let people run with the identities they choose. There's nothing special about a name.
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#24Unless their policy has changed, it's a temporary restriction of the account until the user helps work with a mod to verify the name. Happened to me way back in 2010, because my real name sounds terribly fake: Stormy Shippy
Stormy did your parents choose your name or did you?
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#25Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
#26Unless their policy has changed, it's a temporary restriction of the account until the user helps work with a mod to verify the name. Happened to me way back in 2010, because my real name sounds terribly fake: Stormy Shippy
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#27Unless their policy has changed, it's a temporary restriction of the account until the user helps work with a mod to verify the name. Happened to me way back in 2010, because my real name sounds terribly fake: Stormy Shippy
Stormy did your parents choose your name or did you?
Easiest way to answer is with Quora itself: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-story-behind-Stormy-Shippy...
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#28Ted is a long time Linux kernel hacker. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Ts%27o
Which explains Linus Torvalds' comment:
To me, you'll always just be "tytso"Re: Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a friend who, courtesy of some... let's say unique parents, was graced with multiple middle names and then multiple hyphenated (and unhyphenated) family names as her parents divorced, remarried and she moved between households. Then she got married herself and tacked her husband's last name onto the end of it. Her legal name at this point clocks in at enough words and characters to not fit in most government d…
Got a friend from Bangladesh that has the same problem. He went with first, last, and a string of middle initials. Still has problems. I often think we need a whole class in college on these type of issues. Probably right after the ethics class.
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