'one member, one account'
I suddenly feel a wicked legal councel waking up inside me.
How would you define 'a member'?
Especially when it is linked to 'an account'.
You cannot be a member without having an account. Account comes first, and that makes you a member, not the reverse.
The rule ought to relate to some condition outside of the forums. But that would be difficult to impose or verify, unless you start wit identity control, but that obviously goes beyond the nature of this forums, because of evident privacy reasons.
This site does not discuss pastries and cakes
after all.
(of course, we know mods have ways to detec§ irregularities)
Now; let me get serious for a moment.
Here is my question : how do you define a ‘member’? A unique physical person? Or a character? Because here, we are a character. We represent only one part of our personality, of the same physical person, which also has a RL appearance, as a respectable citizen (m/f), I presume. The part of our personality we are here for, is one we rather prefer to keep hidden for the rest of the world, for obvious reasons.
What I have been thinking about is that, suppose one has posted already a few thousand messages on this forums, and then someone would release a wicked algorithm on those posts. This operation would make appear a ‘profile’ of that member, and the question is, how close will that make appear, from behind the fog of fantasy, something that approaches one’s RL profile?
Somehow, that algorithm exists, spread over the collectivity of the other active members. Message by message, one builds up a virtual identity of one’s self here on this forum. Imperceptibly, the other members will form an image, a profile of that member. Gradually this profile will become clearer. Is it possible that a) this imaginary profile narrows in the heads of the different members towards a similar one and b) how much will the narrowing of that perceived profile come close to the RL profile?
Meanwhile, the same member gets more and more conscious about his/her own profile development on the forums. To a point that one starts behaving like in RL: even if this forums is about our ‘hidden’ fantasies, there may be fantasies (a sub-character of our ‘kink’) that we get reluctant to expose, even to this community. But suppose one would like to throw it in, anyway! The most practical ‘firewall’ then would be starting a new account, focusing on exposing that sub-kink, without ‘embarrassing’ one’s main profile. If handled with responsibility, that should not be a problem (the CelticVirgin case was certainly not responsible way, because it transgressed to bring in a fake RL problem, in order to draw attention). So, like happened before becoming member, a split occurs between the member's real-CF-life, and a concealed profile.
I have read above arguments against multiple accounts because of concerns of trust. I understand that too! So what we see here, is a conflict between privacy, even in this rather safe space (member's viewpoint), and the need for trust among the community. some dilemma!
