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hi all here are some of the details of the problem at MGH: [i've included a couple of postings by a flesh 'n' blood human] Subject: What is "Real?" http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/ubb/Forum107/HTML/003417.html Subject: What is "Real?" http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/ubb/Forum107/HTML/003417-2.html posted December 11, 2000 12:02 AM Tell me what the big advantage is for having multiple login names or multiple personalities? Frankly I just don't see the advantage and I can see the damage. We don't allow this in our "real" lives, so why should it be allowed here where it has caused damage? Why should this place allow something that we wouldn't otherwise accept? Especially with it's implications for those already having a great deal of trouble in there lives, a lot of which is emotional such as depression. I see this allowance of multiple user names as a virtual world trick which is played out on the unwitting. Again, what is it's advantage to the vast number of us who never use it? Subject: What is "Real?" http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/ubb/Forum107/HTML/003417-3.html posted December 11, 2000 02:29 AM Hmmmm... I'm not one of those who can tell when someone is playing new "personality" so my only choice is to avoid HELPING people who I guess might be posing as a different person. Of course I may then fail to help someone who came here for that purpose and if it continues I may go away, but from what the rest of you are telling me, I should learn to live with it. I don't think so. I would miss the Forums but why should I spend my time reading and answering messages that are not real? And should I stop being concerned about those who are put off by multiple personality posters? I think not. I might consider at some point that it is a waste of what life I have left to worry about someone here playing games on others for the wrong reasons. There are always some who want to spoil it for others. In this case the stakes are pretty high considering the emotional and physical health nature of these Forums. For the few people who need to ask a private question, I don't think this scheme of multiple personality posters is important enough to keep. We all have our pseudonyms to protect us anyway. We chose who to give our real names out to. That should be enough in my opinion. On another point, trying to expose a person as causing trouble due to multiple personalities is a big danger in itself, so most of us just pull back rather than getting into provoked flame wars. Again, the Forums lose either way. This is still an experiment and may yet fail. Perhaps the 27,000+ members is not a realistic number and gives a false impression of what's really going on here. Subject: What is "Real?" http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/ubb/Forum107/HTML/003417-3.html Subject: Yoo Who? http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/ubb/Forum71/HTML/003042.html Subject: Yoo Who? http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/ubb/Forum71/HTML/003042-2.html janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now /44 dx cd / 43 onset cd /41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: POBox 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/