PenName

Personas, … « Nom de scène » in French.

Examples to be completed

• 8ave is the PenName given to Octave, his grandson.
• Capi is the PenName give by Tiffany to xtof
• POM (Philou, Octave, Max) is an inspiration from a famous conductor and boat owner who would have liked to be a sailor man (see Helisara 4 on Herbert von Karajan’s vessel, …)
• Tof, tof is the PenName of Christophe Ducamp (christopheducamp.com)

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Moreover, personas are part of our everyday lives; we display different personalities to different people or groups of people.

However, the tradition of pen names has both good and bad examples. Hence it is fallacious to appeal to that; the possibility of pseudonyms does not imply their desirability. Moreover, MeatBall is emphatically not a masquerade ball, wherein the use of elaborate personas is significant.

However, this merely implies that pseudonymity itself is neutral. It is likewise fallacious to claim that bad uses (DramaticIdentity, ostentation, trolling, etc.) invalidate pseudonymity itself.

Therefore, at least on this basis, acceptance or rejection of pseudonyms is merely a neutral value judgment.

See also: [Introduction to Jungian psychology] (broken link), SemanticsOfIdentity, IdentityValidation, VulnerabilityToCommunity, EnforceResponsibility, BasisForPseudonymity, FocusOnIdentity.