I'm still trying to work out why it is anybody wants to be pseudonymous on this kind of website anyway.

I mean, I can imagine online communities where a lot of the fun might lie in building up some artificial personality who wasn't actually real at all, but what I get the sense of here is that most of us are being ouselves, but using a pseudonym for other reasons, maybe because using your own name can lead to hassles of one kind or another.

But I'm still not clear about it.

A propos the example temporarily anonymous gave, I remember a lapel badge "How dare you assume I'm a heterosexual". Really confused people, because they couldn't make out whether it meant the wearer was gay or not gay.Which of course it did - mean't he or she was gay or not gay. Or the other way round. Not a matter of great import to know about anyone else, unless you fancied them, or they fancied you.

I think I'll get one saying "How dare you assume I'm a folkie" and stick it on the concertion I've just bought.