Prometheus 6   

Another one bites the dust?

Atrios Jr. has a post titled "Over and Out" where he pretty much quotes the reactions he's gotten for the few weeks of Eschaton Jr.'s existance. Plus he's taken down his comments (I checked the page source, and the <script> tag is commented out). I'm gonna stick my neck out and guess that phase of his life is over.

I'm gonna miss the scene on his blog. The burst of activity around guessing who he is reminded me of this comic book I once read where the villian kicked Spider Man's ass, ripped off his masks and said, "Huh? Who's this?" Maybe it was Green Lantern. Point being, the villians thought because they knew the persona they'd recognize the person.

It's been all of maybe ten weeks I've been doing this, and in that time I've seen folks try to figure out if Atrios is a gym teacher, who Kos of Daily Kos is and who Atrios Jr. is. I've seen someone accused of hiding their name to running five to seven blogs (including this one) and seen that someone use other people's name as something of a weapon. I read up on another major dispute where the problem was one Blogger assuming a pseudoinym that was too similar to another's.

Do these names, these pseudonyms, change the meaning of what someone writes? Would knowing a writer's name invalidate the reasoning they present?

Maybe it's me.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 6/18/2003 05:18:12 PM |