It's already been mentioned before, the problem is that a lot of people use alts for bad intentions, cheating, stalking, harassing and so on. I have/had alts, but I used them to freely explore without having friends sending me IMS or being known or bothered by people i might bump into, depression makes me want to be alone at times, without having to think and worry about making my friends think I hate them because I'm not responding to their messages or having to explain to them why I'm clearly having myself as unviewable as online for them.
This account at some point used to be an alt, however because of some drama between me and other people I decided to change this into my main to get a clean slate, while my old one is now my bank. I didn't want to be recognized and I wanted to stop feeling paranoid and scared of meeting the people I had a drama with, especially since one of them used to be my friend who decided it was okay to steal my private textures that I had made for myself. In general while I now think I reacted poorly by being overly blunt at the time (No name calling, rudeness just bluntness) for example (can you get your own style? Can you please stop copying me?), I don't think I deserved to be harassed the way I did, especially since I was trying to protect my textures, products, product frames and my stores identity in a way , from being copybotted or taken inspiration from. At the time I was young and dumb and had a lot of joy creating textures, and trying to find my own style and identity in it so basically I was sensitive about the subject at the time, I still don't condone stealing someone's textures, unless asked for permission, however I do think I could of just ignored it or have communicated in a different way to make them understand my perspective better.
I now don't care whenever they know who I am, my ex-friend does and I've experienced future harassment because of it but I just laugh at it now. I know my wrongdoings, but if they haven't then so be it.
My point is that I felt like I had to switch to a different account because I was experiencing a lot of anxiety and fear by meeting or bumping into these people (probably because of my AVPD, general fear of rejection and so on), fear of being harassed and misunderstood, after just trying to protect my own things. I after all just wanted to enjoy SL, and I couldn't with these lingering fears in the back of my head. I don't know if this type of "alt" or switching an alt into a main account is considered shady for this reason, but I don't believe that all alts are bad or should be considered bad, everyone got different reasons.
Edited by PixelBerry
