Keep your B3ta name unique
from every other board/forum/email address you may frequent/use. For example, I'm only SLVA on this site and nowhere else. For the rest of the internet I have two other nicknames.

That way, your stories about shitting in a hotel bed or how you got laid at 13 can't be traced back to you.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 25 May 2010, 15:48, 16 replies)

yup
I would go as far as saying use a different name on different sites. A quick Google of my usual name (I use a different one on here!) brings out many forums, many dating sites, my facebook, my twitter, my personal website, stuff ive uploaded to failblog and job recruitment sites.

Basically you can find out what i look like, where i live, what i do, what I like. Just everything!
(Miggyman, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:10, closed)

Yeah, same here.
Outside of b3ta. I have two other nicknames.
(Dante licked your nipple on, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:36, closed)

I don't do this nearly enough
Er, I mean the other Cloudane doesn't do this nearly enough!
(Cloudane, Tue 25 May 2010, 16:49, closed)

Or alternatively,
use one so common that anyone googling it will be inundated with specious hits.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:04, closed)

I'm keeping a low profile here
If people start prying it could get messy.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:12, closed)

In other words
Don't do this: www.b3ta.com/questions/anon/post615785
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:30, closed)

Totach!
That's the fella, I was trying to remember his name. That kid that got bullied off the internet for saying something rude to Happy Toast left himself wide open too.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Tue 25 May 2010, 17:59, closed)

I've a few.
But this one is unique to b3ta.
People who know me or my style of posting from other places will likely spot it's me though.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 25 May 2010, 17:50, closed)

and it's difficult to find on Google

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 25 May 2010, 18:20, closed)

I hope they all are...
I stand behind most things I post on the internet but I'd rather not have them attached to a real name in a database.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 25 May 2010, 18:41, closed)

One of my nephews posts on here
and I recognised the anecdotes he told rather than his name!

The dirty swine.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 25 May 2010, 19:48, closed)

Heh. Ditto my brother. I saw a couple of his posts, and I just knew it was him.
His writing style gave him away just as much as the content of his stories.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Wed 26 May 2010, 17:41, closed)

You know that's a good idea
I think I'll follow this advice. I mostly use my real name elsewhere but not exclusively.
( Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Wed 26 May 2010, 1:03, closed)

If find it easier
to not post things I'm ashamed of. This is best achieved by having no shame.
(pseudomonkey is not a real monkey., Wed 26 May 2010, 3:06, closed)

But on a serious forum...
...always use your real name.

It's much easier to believe that "Andrew Woodford" might know a bit about quantum physics/cars/evolution/medicine and stand behind what he says, than "BallSlammerz404"
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Wed 26 May 2010, 9:45, closed)

Not necessarily *your* real name
any real sounding name will do nicely.
(bblgoose, Wed 26 May 2010, 10:54, closed)