Looks like we have reached something of a preponderance, if not a consensus. (Notice I am avoiding the use of hard and fast percentages.
)No officially allowed secondary IDs except as formal RP players in the RP forum.
For now, anyway.
There will be stealth alternate IDs, just as there are illegal immigrants. I know I will feel the need to have one at some point, and will simply post in that guise from a nearby coffee shop, that has its own IP address. Other future members who may be, as some of you have suggested, of a less savory nature, will also be getting alternate IDs.
I suggest you address this in the "offenses that merit penalty" thread that is currently under discussion, and add ID policing to the Admins' duties. How you will prove who an alternate ID is, short of a confession, is beyond me. For a penalty, I suppose you will have to ban both the primary and secondary ID for some time. Not that it will stop anyone. I did not post from an alternate ID while banned on TORC, though the temptation was great, but I noticed that some of the others did go ahead and post. Some of TheDaimonLucifer's most thoughtful posts in Manwe, by the way, were under an assumed name, after banning.
As I see it, there will be a subculture of alternate IDs, but only by those who are crafty in the ways of concealment. There will be fewer alternative IDs, and they will be for the serious, and most would say deceptive, purpose of hiding the identity of the owner. Since there will be fewer alternative IDs, there may be fewer people getting burned. On the other hand, there may be more naivete on the part of those who don't expect that those they post with are alternative IDs.
C'est la vie.