except for a real douchebag, who would lose intentionnaly to everyone except top players to affect the ranks, having an alias doesn't change anything.
 
there are a few aliases here on the site, and first and second account are ranked at the same places +/- 3 spots.
 
i had 3 names at a momemt (first account Sohal, alias to play crazy in my bedroom Trochus, and Pd3a to replace Trochus who was expired). Those 3 aliases were ranked 4-5-6 or something like that.
 
revealing aliases or not, both are defendable, my opinion is they should be revealing,
my opinion is also all games should be viewy, and etc, etc.....
my opinion is not necessary the best so i follow the rules
 
and agree with you razor, not a big deal

Razor is right on.  If I wanted to go straight lace and defensive, a new account would be perfect for me.  I would get the great benefit of being a lottoing moron with Devilsmacker, and a conservative shuffler with a new one.  Why should this be frowned upon, and why does anyone have a right to know I am doing it?
 
The only thing I would abhor would be creating another account and using it to tank games.  If I had two accounts, I would try to win with both of them equally.  I am not looking to toss games away.

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And Flyers of course your word can be trusted. Tell me who said I told them and I will post any and all private chats between me and them.Or your private chat with them. I only talk to Admis and Mods offsite I did talk to CS when he was a mod off site so you are full of crap, I have never and will never reveal a paid aliases other name or names.
 Man up tell me who said it and i will prove you wrong with chat logs.

Blas:
 
I bet you guess it on the first try.  Look at the 3 month rankings.

 
OK, Blas.  Let me assist you through this deep and impenetrable mystery using what one might call deductive reasoning.  Attached below is the relevant part of today's 3 month ranking.  I'm not sure what you looked at--Shredder is 10 ranks below razorclaw.  And, you don't need any special log checks to figure this one out.  
 

 
Look at razorclaw and then, operating under the assumption that any name I play under is really just a reflection of my ability, look for another player with a similar KRACH and OPP KRACH.  That player would most likely be my alias, I would say.

Well, I did not realize I had marked ELO, rather than Krach.  
 
 

 
As you can see Shredder could be too your alias.
 
Note that the classification changes every moment.  
On the other hand, an alias may be higher or lower.  
On the other hand, you know your alias ( ) but when I look at a ranking, I can not imagine, there are players alias next to other players. If you not known an alias, you not think that one player and the next player is the same person.
 
But I have to admit that in this case is clear: You are devilsmacker, knave.

may i add, that questioning the integrity of HRTN is way out of order. the hillbilly has been around as long as i can remember and does a great job (so what he clashes against people in the political forum. thats what its there for). upon becomming a mod, i found that he does a great job in the scenes and behind the scenes. fair enough he is a republican but nobody is perfect.
 
I try to get along with everyone here and help the new guys as much as my time will allow me, but this is a witch hunt against the integrity of mods/admin and new players who learn the trade very quickly.
 
last witch hunt i remember was against xin. he owned alot of rank whores and a good few players, and also average players like me. nobody claims he is an 'alias' now do they? turns out when he claimed that his father taught him well at home he was right?
 
this type of topic is no good for meta and its growth. I understand the fustration of being ambushed but this is no way to go about it guys.

at my beginning, i improved quickly, some called me a Napoleon's alias ......
 
if you love the game, it doesn't take too much time to learn it and start beating sometimes top players.
don't forget luck is part of the game.

I spoke with him today and he had just realized that there was on ongoing discussion about him in the forum. He seemed upset about it and said he was frustrated that he has been verbally attacked the way he has. I understand his frustration.  
 
I played him for the first time and he seems to be a decent player. He takes a lot of risks, but in the end he backs them up. He did not lotto AT ALL, but came down strong with his marsh and colonel paired up. We ended up in a 35 minute game with 650+ moves, and I came out with the win because of the 5 move rule. He had a great set up (That i'm sure came from Lightwing)   And used it to his advantage in every way possible.  
 
He knows the rules of the game and is a polite person. Seems to be one of the finer few here on Meta. He still has some learning to do, but I see him moving to 75 +/- no problem.  
 
Lets just all leave the man alone and move on.
 
-Boss

Am a little saddened to see Jimmy being singled out here - he's a nice guy and in the several very enjoyable games we have played, he has steadily improved (in my opinion anyway - as has been mentioned in this thread, if he understood the 5 move rule a bit better he would win more games).  
 
I've always enjoyed playing against you too Sorrows, so I'm not having a go at you here mate, I'm just saying that you can't convict him on the evidence of having a couple of good wins - when you play as many games as Jimmy does (and he's willing to play anybody at all), you are bound to have a couple of good wins now and then.  
 
More importantly, top players are bound to play a few bad games now and then - after all, I'm only ranked about 75 and I have 2-all record against Hielco! I'd be willing to bet those weren't 2 of his better games - he had probably just played a couple of matches back-to-back of 1000+ moves against Blaz or something, so it's understandable if his concentration dropped a bit when the 80th ranked player joined his game...
 
If we want more members to this site, then we need to give folks the benefit of the doubt a bit more often IMO.
 
There's my 2 cents worth anyway; I hope to play many more games against both of you gentlemen (Jimmy and Sorrows) in the future.
 
 
The most beautiful man in the cosmos,  
Squeak.