I see that there is a lot of wise people that have abandoned ILP, for no obvious reasons.
Do you think that some of these folks simply got tired of their old profiles and decided to create new “personalities”?
Or is it simply a case of having nothing more to say, nothing more to add? No more lust, no more pleasure?
people have different personnas , sometimes you can tell, mostly you can’t.
I started here as “Belinda”, a right-wing religious fanatic, of a certain rationalist bent, flavored with Kantian ethics, existentialist/phenomenologist epistemology and an Hegelian view of history.
I mean History.
But I wasn’t getting laid, so I switched to Perspectivism.
I’m still not getting laid, but I’m having more fun, anyway.
Of the posters who’s work interests me, yes, it is very easy to see who is who; both by content and style.
Knowing a poster who has changed user names about 30 times, I think there were several reasons for this: change in thinking, not being happy with the user-name, post count getting close to 100, wanting to experiment with a character, wanting to experiment with a style, reasons of privacy, and ‘other’ reasons.
allot of people get frustrated with ILP and leave, and for other various reasons…
I reckon about half of them return under new names, even if just for a temporary fix.
And yes, i seem to be able to tell when i read somones work if i know them or not.
It’s part subject matter and part style…
I don’t know why they change their name in the first place, what are they trying to accomplish?
i once made an alias, yoda was the name… I had only made it so i could communicate with someone who absolutely despises wonderer… he knew it was me…
Most people generally have quite distinctive patterns of ‘speech’ when writing on forums and people I know in the real world generally say that I talk in a very similar way online as I do in real life.
Plus, I’d guess that most people here tend to do a lot of writing, so should they choose to write instead of speak then they’re probably going to have developed a particular style.
However, like speech our accents can be changed.
So, having not been around for long enough to claim any ability to do so, I assume you could spot someone if they weren’t attempting to hide themselves
I’ve only ever had one account. I got the mods to change it from my real name to Smears right after I got it.
what happened, did you ruin your sunday best?
Once I thought that you were Satyr’s ‘more balanced’ counterpart, Wonderer… 
but yes, now I see you’re very different from him…
btw, I ain’t giving no names, but I do recognize some old users behind some of these new profiles.
Same here, except for the name changing part.
I’m pretty old.