A serious question: Why do some DUers use more than one name? [View All]

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I was reading the now-locked "marrying an alcoholic" thread and there were hints that someone named Lostmessage was also sock-puppetting as someone named corarose, and had several different identities. Hmmmm. WHY?!

Can somebody PLEASE tell me why you would need or want more than one user name here on DU? Is it one for work, one for home (and why have a different identity, if so?) Is it to fill the swelling ranks on the frontpage and make DU look bigger than it is? Is it so that you can argue several different sides to an issue? Is it because you're lonely and want to be kept company but there's noone around but yourself? Is it because you have mental problems? To me, the whole sock-puppetting thing smacks of freeperism. Is it so that you can "freep" polls? I can't for the life of me figure out why you'd want to do something like that.

The other day, my DU buddy ChavezSpeaksTheTruth, who I've been friends with since we were 13, got accused of being a sockpuppet for another DUer. Not fucking cool, but I can see how the problem would arise and how the suspicion would occur, since secretly there seems to be a bunch of other DUers doing it; projection, you know.

So, seriously, why do DUers feel the need to sock-puppet? Can we all see how some problems would occur because of multiple identities?

Can we please be honest with each other?