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I suppose I could get upset at the use of the word hypocrisy there. Too often, discussing things in good faith leads to such accusations, which ends up people deciding it is not worth their while to try to talk about things, which leads to suspicion, which leads to... and so on. Please keep that in mind.

I said I perceived hypocrisy, and I hoped someone would disabuse me of that perception.

I hope you can understand how someone would reasonably arrive at such a perception, given your original statement "me who has another screen name, but hasn't quite decided what he is going to do; I know that at a minimum I am going to continue to do whatever polling tracking and analysis I do under this name" makes it appear that you're considering continuing to post under 2 screen names?

The 'Dales' to 'Hugh Akston' name change seems to be one of those "understandable" ones, and perhaps the 'hiding from the wrath of Badjoe' one as well. Obviously Jim does know about the different names - but at this point, wouldn't the right thing to do be to close down 2 of the 3?

Would I be allowed to have 2 different screen names? For example, another one to use for when I wanted to say something that was out of character for "Amelia" or that might get me banned?

By the way, I personally don't regard "I am not a mod", "Admin Moderator", "Support Free Republic" etc. as multiple IDs in this case - as you say, those are for a specific purpose and not for debating.

The Hugh Akston name has been closed down, for a long, long time. I don't post on it, I don't log into it. It is unused. I stopped using it completely when I switched back to Dales, just as I had stopped using Dales when I had switched to Hugh Akston.

Earlier this week, I asked the other moderators what to do about the new names. Should I go back to being Dales, or keep my new name. It was not unanimous, but the majority felt I should keep the new name.

On the other hand, several people (not mods) have written me at the Dales account asking me to do the polling work I used to do again this campaign season. I was planning on using Dales to do it; the polling information that I track is what it is- a compilation and an analysis of what the numbers really say and mean (not what I wished they meant but rather from a mathematical point of view what they really really say). But if that is going to be controversial, that is easy enough to fix. I won't use this account either, except for finishing off this thread. It really didn't dawn on me that it would be controversial, since I know that the polling info that I do is not really a partisan activity in any way, shape or form.

As for if you could have two screen names- ask Jim, tell him why you want them and what you would do with them. If he says yes, then the mods don't have a thing to complain about.