EVE General Discussion

You hear it all the time. "Post with your main". I know I do, and I have good reasons for doing so. The main one is building an "e-Personality". People know who I am, what I think, and what to expect from me -- and if they don't, it's easy to find out. It's also to help friends join discussions that are ongoing. "Check this out, I am actually Alt AbcXyz here" just seems like the wrong way to go about things. Plus, alts are not taken as seriously, even if their contribution to the discussion is perfectly valid.

So, with that in mind, I would like to ask: Why do you alt post? Or, if you main-post, why do you think others alt post?

Is it paranoia? Or, in more nasty terms, cowardice? Is in-game retribution for forum actions really that prevalent? Is the risk of some people not liking you that high? Or is it something else?

Discuss. (Sorry, couldn't help myself)

I post on my main.

CEO rules. Does not want unnecessary attention drawn to the corp.

I'm sure there a plenty of others that post for anonymity, high profile people Sewell.

I can't come up with an instance where a post would draw bad attention to a corp would be a post that needs posting at all.

Heh... I wonder if Chribba alt posts.

ITT: people who reply to the title instead of the post.

Reasons to alt-post:

1. Protecting the pretense: you want to expound on matters outside your experience without being called on it. People can say "post with your main", or mock the contribution of an NPC corp member, but you imagine that people reckon you could know what you're talking about. This might feel good even though it lacks all the advantages of main-posting.

2. Being two-faced: you want to **** on your allies or your alliance without having them dislike the 'real you' for it.

3. Breaking rules: you want to **** on your enemies even after your leadership has told you to shut up, specifically or generally.

4. It's not paranoia when they really are that vindictive: you're a member of a small industrial corp, you have a POS and newbies out mining, you want to **** on the leadership of vast space empires without having their death squads very plausibly sent your way.

always post whit my main.

awsome isn't it?

i always post with my main ive got nothing to hide

what ? come at me

Thanks for not responding to the title.

1. I can sort of see it, but not really. I post about things I have no expertise in (e.g. capital ship mechanics), but I do preface it with that I have no idea what I'm talking about. If it's a real discussion, the views of people who don't necessarily already have it beaten to death should be welcome.
2. I have critically posted about Ushra'Khan before, and I considered alt-posting, but then the message wouldn't have the same gravity. "Oh no, a NPC alt thinks our alliance is going to hell in a handbasket!" Again, I can sort of understand it, but not really.
3. This I can see, but it sort of defeats the point of #2 again. If anything, it can boost the enemy's morale: "Haha, they're being silenced because they're such blurfing idiots". I have been the one laughing like that, I know.
4. Not to turn this into a discussion of Goonswarm's "death squads", but does this actually happen? I haven't heard of a real instance of it happening, only people worried about it (and blurfing using an alt about how it's terrible).

Yes, but only in CAOD because CCP prohibited corps with less than 10 pilots. So I have to use an alt that has a corp with more pilots (Refia).

/c

If its a proper conversation I want to join in with I'll post with Cutter, which is 99% of the time, the only time I've posted with an alt lately was in an ugly avatar thread.