I (Robert) am a regular and repeat offender when it comes to satiric use of celebrity names. I usually leave an unmistakable clue to my identity, usually just supplying my well-known @habitablezone.com email address, sometimes compounding the comedic offense with a note to the effect that "the part of [celebrity] was played tonight by Robert".
Given my proclivity for that kind of humor, I naturally had to lobby for tolerance toward the practice. Tom summed it up pretty well: Nobody'd believe an A-list celebrity anyway, and from B-list and lower, leave some sort of clue. The criteria I use in the gray area is intent, intent to deceive (seriously, which can have embarrassing conseuences for the deceived), intent to do harm, flaming from the cover of a psuedonym, stuff like that.
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I confess
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- How do you see ISP's of posters here?
- I confess
- Example of a problem post in this category (IMO)
- I confess
- See what I mean?
- The post you flamed was not directed at you, BTW...
- "The criteria I use in the gray area is intent, intent to deceive.(...), intent to do harm, __flaming from the cover of a psuedonym__, stuff like that..."
- Just curious...
- I see no possible problems with this
- Now cut that out! (n/t)
- re: I confess
- Okay. No foul, I guess.
- I confess
- I do understand that
- Example of a problem post in this category (IMO)
- Fake names
- We've actually have had celebs post here.
- That's Bill "Kristol" (n/t)
- At the bottom of the post next to the Message URL
- I confess