Timeline for Any reason not to display my full name in profile?
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| Sep 14, 2016 at 13:19 | comment | added | Neil Anuskiewicz | LOL. I've yet to meet another Neil Anuskiewicz and it'd scare the shit out of me if I did. I'd think Doppelganger! Run. Run. | |
| Sep 14, 2016 at 13:02 | comment | added | Ryan Babchishin | @NeilAnuskiewicz Using your real name doesn't matter so much if there's many or hundreds or thousands or 10's of thousands of people with the same name as you. How about you? I got screwed in that regard. | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 10:59 | comment | added | Dennis Nolte | @NeilAnuskiewicz actually yes.. HR drones often might not understand if a questions was good written or not. If you think someone is taking hours to analyse if you are a good or not: in my opinion and experience this is not happening. You get sorted automatically as much as possible. Additionally depending on the person one might get in an argument what is on-topic, disagree with a mod decision etc.. | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 6:38 | comment | added | Neil Anuskiewicz | Dennis Nolte - Would an employer really hold it against you that you were asking questions on Stack? Even if you slipped occasionally and asked a stupid question, I wouldn't think they'd hold Stack questions against you. Well, unless it was a pattern of really stupid questions with little sign of improvement over time. That wouldn't be good. But I would think reasonable, earnest questions would be a good thing. I would think a potential boss would be relieved you were aware of Stack. Here I'm assuming an enlightened employer. Obviously that's far from a given! | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 15:25 | comment | added | user121391 | It is also possible that someone else impersonates you in order to make you look bad. Usually, it is "first come, first served" regarding name choices, so if you are not the first one, someone else can use "your" name to be rude, answer questions in a false way or display incompetence on purpose. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 14:33 | comment | added | Neil Anuskiewicz | Dennis Nolte - I am not one of those people who leaves their FB profile wide open or something like that as I do realize there are edges where privacy and security overlap. I use a password manager, don't use the same password on multiple sites, and other basic security measures. I think that's the point you're making is that privacy has security implications, right? I figure I mitigate the risk by being on top of things in other ways. The keyword is mitigate. I realize I'm increasing my exposure by using my real name but I think it's a marginal increase... | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 14:27 | comment | added | Dennis Nolte | @NeilAnuskiewicz if you are one of the person who got "nothing to hide" with privacy, please educate yourself what people already can do with the data you have. "Only" not getting a job is quite low on the possibility. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 14:25 | comment | added | Dennis Nolte | Neil the downvote on meta is usually disagreeing with the question you asked, only on the site a downvote should show a bad question (basically) | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 14:22 | comment | added | Neil Anuskiewicz | Dennis Nolte - Good points, all. Thank you. Privacy is a sound reason. I generally figure it's best to put oneself out there even if some questions get a -1 on Server Fault. :-) I'm not super concerned with privacy. Security, yes! Privacy? I'm not super concerned. Should I be? Barring the worse case of a prospective employer seeing a server fault FAIL and tossing your resume! :-) | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 14:07 | history | answered | Dennis Nolte | CC BY-SA 3.0 |