OT Poll How much are you like your forum persona?

[Renegade 13]

Ok, so the title could be a little better phrased, but hey I'm sick and tired so cut me a little slack

The question is; is your real-life personality similar to your online forum personality, and how close is the similarity? I've put this in a poll so I'd get more responses...it seems people like the anonymity of a poll, since so many more people vote as opposed to posting!

Feel free to elaborate in a post if you have something more to add. And if you don't feel like adding more info, please at least vote!

[Fyron]

"forum persona?" Interesting...

[Renegade 13]

Imperator Fyron said:
"forum persona?" Interesting...

In what way?

[Randallw]

Apart from common sense security I act just like me. For example I don't even bother with a forum name except my own. I'm simply not the sort of person who feels it necessary to make up a nickname.

[Slynky]

I marked the next to last option because people should have a good idea of what I'm like (personality-wise) if they read all my posts. That means they have an idea what kind of music, girls, movies, and games I like. The would know I've always like model railroading, am a Serenity "freak", work in IT for a living, tinker around with photography and digital imagery, and like SE4 more than any other game I've played (except chess). They would know I appreciate good humo(u)r and clever puns. I'm competitive. I don't get upset easy and am a fairly mild-mannered reporter, errrr, person. And they'd know I'm married and have a daughter.

So, without boring everyone to death, I'd say what you have read that I've posted is a good representation of what I'm like.

[Alneyan]

I went for 50/50, but I'm not sure how high the proportion should be. What I say varies depending on the context: speaking French around certain users (say, other university students) is bound to be different from writing English on a forum with different users. Either way, it will only reflect a part of what I am, and never the whole: these 3,000 posts contain some information, a lot of it repeated very often, but they can't contain the whole (just like after a few hours of conversation).

I also don't post all the time, whereas I *am* all the time, so some of my moodiness is unlikely to show. And I suppose there's always that dark corner of the self.

[Thermodyne]

It’s more or less all the same person here. Main difference is that in the real world I can talk faster than I type, so I tend to say more.

[General Woundwort]

Do our actions in the various Cantinas and Bar & Grills count?

[TurinTurambar]

Aside from the mysterious cloaked figure with the evil sword that wanders in and out of the B&G occasionally, what you see is what you get.

[kerensky]

If Narf is really like himself on the outside world.....