Do you really think the band The Who would approve of the way their name is being used here?
There's no risk of someone thinking the guy is actually in the band The Who.
In this case, there is significant risk of readers confusing the user going by "Johnny Ringo" with the real John Ringo.
Yes, one of John's ancestors was a gunfighter and shared the same name. Still, for the reasons I stated, there is a risk of identity confusion here.
That wouldn't be an issue if John were in any way involved in the Troubled Teen Industry as a Program employee, owner, staff, ed con, advocate on either side, or otherwise had anything to do with the industry.
My presence here as his co-author, under my real name, is enough to make readers think this person is really him.
An alternate way to avoid confusion is if anything I ever wrote on Fornits anywhere gets removed and I don't come back. That's not to storm off in a huff, that's just the only other way I can see of disassociating John from Fornits--is to disassociate myself as well.
I've gotten some good information here over the past few years, and I hate to have to leave, but advocacy is advocacy, and business is business.
Ginger, if you don't think you can ethically change that guy's moniker, if you could find some way of yanking my stuff I'd appreciate it. I know that's harder because I didn't use a log on and may not be possible, but please let me know what you choose to do.
I can't leave a situation where someone I work closely with gets tarred with some pretty horrible opinions, when he doesn't ever come here or have anything to do with here, just on account of my occasionally showing up.
I don't expect anybody to miss me--I'm not here enough, and I'm not that vain. I just need to know what I need to do.
