Forum Overview :: Wall Street Kid :: Re: No, an Ator requires that you have been posing as a different person.

[quote name="evidence on the ground."][quote name="ha ha"]Does anyone doubt who <a href="http://www.caltrops.com/pointy.php?action=viewPost&pid=77461">this</a> poster is? reg + new alias + reg reveal = ator. If I were to now post a long diatribe against Mexico and say that I'd like to bomb it but I forgot to unchange my nick, that would also be an ator. [/quote] You're stupid, but I like stupid people so I'll explain this to you: The essence of ATORing is that you meant to be taken for someone else. I never did, which is why I never bothered to alter my writing style, avoid the topic of me, or in any way disguise the relationship between Zseniness and evidence on the groundness. ATORing does not live in the mind of someone too stupid to connect dots <i>right on top of each other</i>; fooling <i>you</i> was inadvertent. I have plenty of actual ATORs on this forum!!! But I consider them "brands" rather than separate identities. I post as Jerry Whorebach when I want to talk about my social anxiety without having it spill over to my posts about politics or feminist theory; I post as Mischief Maker when I want to pretend I really did go to law school, and what sort of person I would have been if I had made that choice and stuck with it. I post as Grumah when I want to make fun of my video gaming habits - kind of egging myself on to spend less time at a computer, you know? I post as Entropy Stew when I want to express that inexpressible sentiment of collectivist absurdism, about which Camus wrote with eloquent brevity, and which is in my opinion the fundamental ethos of Caltrops. And of course anything very smart I post under Zseni*. As that aspect of my personality is quite dominant and (or so I like to think) roguishly charming, it's natural that you read everyone else as one of my - Zseni's - voices. [/quote]