Second thoughts: You are on the ball for the various complexities, and it does look like hard work. But... it would be so useful!
Can secondary accounts have different email addresses? I am of two minds. I would suggest that the answer is... They need to share one email address, which does not have to be made public, and they may have a second "public" email address.
E.g., if Archangel Beth *cough* has her personal journal, and suddenly becomes a best seller author using the name of Beth McCloud. She wants to keep her personal journal personal, so she can rant, but wants to have a more public face to talk to her fans. If her email is Bethipoo@fake.isp.com for each one, this... might be kind of easy to discover. If she also has BethMc@fake.isp.com, she could make that one the visible email for Beth_McCloud.dreamwidtch, and leave the Bethipoo address public for her Archangel Beth journal.
Sharing one email address (even if it's not visible on a secondary journal) seems like it would be a useful way to identify the account-holder.
Creating a secondary account should require an invite code?
I don't mind this; it hopefully provides and extremely tiny hurdle to creating a million-zillion secondary accounts, which might result in inadvertent (or advertent) name-squatting.
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Second thoughts: You are on the ball for the various complexities, and it does look like hard work. But... it would be so useful!
Can secondary accounts have different email addresses? I am of two minds. I would suggest that the answer is... They need to share one email address, which does not have to be made public, and they may have a second "public" email address.
E.g., if Archangel Beth *cough* has her personal journal, and suddenly becomes a best seller author using the name of Beth McCloud. She wants to keep her personal journal personal, so she can rant, but wants to have a more public face to talk to her fans. If her email is Bethipoo@fake.isp.com for each one, this... might be kind of easy to discover. If she also has BethMc@fake.isp.com, she could make that one the visible email for Beth_McCloud.dreamwidtch, and leave the Bethipoo address public for her Archangel Beth journal.
Sharing one email address (even if it's not visible on a secondary journal) seems like it would be a useful way to identify the account-holder.
Creating a secondary account should require an invite code?
I don't mind this; it hopefully provides and extremely tiny hurdle to creating a million-zillion secondary accounts, which might result in inadvertent (or advertent) name-squatting.