Medieval Boards

Call Me Jimmy

I'll set the scene. It's medieval times and what we now know as boards is a physical forum where people nail messages up instead of posting online because there is no internet in medieval times.

You have to write your username on with a pen (quill as it was known at the time). So you dip it in the ink and write your post as well as your username, you might even sign it an extra time as part of the message which was the style at the time. Someone you know comes along and makes eye contact (remember there was still eye contact in medieval times).

What I'm asking is would you put your thumbs over your signature/name so that the other person (in medieval-time-suitable clothing) cannot identify you as the poster of your posts? Or would you be comfortable just being honest?

policarp

Your'e Jousting, aren't you. . .

Jester252

Is this just a long way of asking people if they hide behind their username?

Sir Osis of Liver.

Im listining to my bitches on the harpsichord.

TheFOB

You're talking about the noticeboard at the local Spar right??

Nemeses

Drinking Mead, back tomorrow.

C.K Dexter Haven

Did they have post-its back in the day?

mikemac1

A lot of you godless heathens are going to burned at the stake!

No church bashing threads on medieval boards

downonthefarm

one does not simply use ones real name in internet forums

policarp

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

It's medieval times

In them days there wasn't much choice.
Toe the line or lose your head. . .
Henry IIX on tinternet.
Could you imagine whose fingers would
be chopped off. . .

IM0

downonthefarm wrote: »

one does not simply use ones real name in internet forums

jimmy clearly does

Killer Wench

Uhm... why bother covering up your name? Strong likelihood that the other chap couldn't read, and if he could read, he was probably going to drop dead within seconds from some plague or such.

Augmerson

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS

magick

Down with these Taxes!

policarp

Robbing Hood. . .

Duggy747

Dugeth The 747th