What is with our real name and email showing in forums when we're logged in?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
October 3, 2017
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I posted some comments and then an answer to a question in the forum, but I deleted everything because I realized it was showing my real name and business email address (in the popup when I hovered over my name). I checked in a different browser that I wasn't logged into and noticed that it properly protected my name and email, but why the deception? What is with making it hard to know what others see? We should see ourselves exactly the same as others do in the forums.

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Peru Bob

Community Expert

If you log out, you will see what we see.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

There has been more than one occasion when Jive broke again, and mods (at least) could see real names and email addresses. I am not sure why a person would want to keep their name a secret. Emails can certainly be abused, why hide behind a screen name?

Ussnorway7605025

Legend

Trevor.Dennis wrote
why hide behind a screen name?

in my case a real name is linked to a different business and that creates a conflict of interest

if you give Adobe your real name then Adobe will use it... you have control of what Adobe | forums knows about you

so for example if you tell Adobe your name is spongebob and you live on the ocean floor just off the washington coast then I assume the database will list you as a Trump supporter but it won't display your real name in this forum