It appears to me that someone maybe pulling an interesting prank on me. Currently, there is a diary in the diary roll written by a new poster that has assumed the handle 'NuevoLiberal'.
I don't know what to make of it, but I wanted to clarify that it's not me posting under a new and hard to distinguish handle.
Hillary: Anakin Skywalker or Darth Vader on Health Care?
by NuevoLiberal
Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 12:30:18 PM PST
As noted in the comments secntion in that diary, many commenters and hence likely readers were initially under the impression that that diary was written by me, until I posted a comment to mention that it wasn't the case.
My uid is 54442, and my impersonator's uid is 114654. And, I should point out that I did switch from NeuvoLiberal to NuevoLiberal at myDD a few months ago.
I noticed this interesting development this morning on the recommenders list for EdwardsRaysofSunshine's diary.
This leaves me wondering who might be pulling this prank (as I suspect it to be). And why?
It also raises the interesting Meta question: what can or should be done about potentially deliberate impersonation with closely resembling username handles. Please use the diary for that question and other open-ended discussions.
(UPDATE) I have posted this request for clarification in NuevoLiberal (my 'evil-twin', eh :))'s diary:
To the diarist: please (0 / 0)
post here or stop by in my diary: I am being Impersonated by 'NuevoLiberal' and clarify if your choice of the handle is innocent.
If innocent, I think that it'd be better if you could pick another handle since this one will create a lot of confusion between what we respectively post.
Thanks.
by NeuvoLiberal on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 03:00:47 PM PST