My other account car is a Volvo.
Seriously?
Ask Auggie or Andrew – they can see IP addresses etcetera; if one has another account – as @auggie mentioned, for personal or joke or whatever reasons – it’s nobody’s business. Like email accounts – one can have several. My work email is different from my first email for friends and family.
Here – I loved just chatting with people.
The lurve was just something you click on under your friend’s post. Then came the awards and the never ending Community Feed bouncing away to the right of my screen – where I have almost no vision at all.
I have actually (now) gotten used to it – and because of the time difference – am often on here practically alone – just asking and answering (my own) questions. ~
The feed allows me to see change: if someone gets a GQ, etcetera.
But the place had become so obsessed with “winning awards” @coloma to answer your query; every F5 refresh – there would be this award and frizzer and babby and merlin award and then guppy and tadpole and whatever – and 5k and 10k – it made me literally seasick. Being colour-blind with poor vision – everything that bounces on the screen can make me sick. That’s why I prefer emails to anything else.
So in protest and I pmed Ben and spoke about it a lot here (it’s hard to “look up” deleted accounts’ questions – but they are still around – Zen, NewZen, Zen_Again, Zen – something). I have asked about 500 questions, at alast count. Approximately.
The awards, the colours and fast pace – it became like a video game. In December of 2009 – all the Ab-ers came in – (bless them – they’re really cool the ones who’ve stayed on)which was nice but… they used the site to ask all kinds of Questions – and the place became a video game with LOL and Date qustions – and lurve parties. Many of them were smart and funny of course, I mean because of the tremendous influx and starting out questions – which is natural and I went throught it too when I first joined – I really couldn’t keep up. So I changed evrey so often to avoid lurve parties, and awards and silly things. It was also fun (secretly, now) to be able to give lurve to friend’s again whom you have maxed out on – for those who actually care about lurve ~) ;-)
So – I quit a couple of times – explaingin why each time – and pmed my friends about the name change.
Picard stayed, Zen appears is in the name.
Now then – shall I stay zenele – I think so. (Supermouse has a question with the odds in favour of my changing again before 10k)
I am at peace with this new format – I think Andrew and Ben and Tim have done a wonderful job with the site – Social and General and Meta – it’s perfect.
To paraphrase the great A A Milne; Now I am six I’m as clever as clever (astrochuck?)
So I think I shall stay zenele now – forever and ever.
:-)