Re: Reputation of a Reputation

At 10:17 AM 12/3/01 -0800, Tim May wrote:

As soon as people tumble to the fact that "Tom Clancy" has sold his nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on their words, then the reputation of "Tom Clancy" falls.

I was coming to that conclusion thanks to the public exchange of certain extremely-high-rep folks here. The conclusion: you can't sell a nym. Nyms are best managed by their initiator. You can sell a nym's recommendation reliably but not a nym. Is this true? A grasshopper,