Post by hiredfox July 24, 2012 (1 of 46)
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Quite often I click on a poster's 'noms de plume' to find out their names or where they come from purely to add colour and context to their views - and it is often very enlightening how such aspects affect people's views on issues that we discuss.
What really tees me off is the discovery that behind many nom de plume's are yet other unhelpful and meaningless codenames.
How in heaven's name is that supposed to build community and trust guys?
What have you got to hide, what are you scared of?
One of the great attractions of this site is it's tolerance, honesty and openness. We don't do secrecy on here and if newcomers haven't the guts to stand to the line on their views and take the flax head on then go elsewhere!
Zeus for heaven's sake stop this practice - insist on proper names and at least country of origin or banish people from OUR site.
I am quite prepared to name and shame. For now I bin the views of these worthless people as worthless humbug!!
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Post by Hitters July 24, 2012 (2 of 46)
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I find it really un-proper of gentlemen's behavior to mask the real identity.
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Post by windhoek July 24, 2012 (3 of 46)
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I understand your preference hiredfox, but disagree. The medium of the interweb allows the development of an online personality which can't exist in the real world. I've never been chatting with someone in person and held up a picture of an emoticon to augment what I've been saying. Because of the communicative restrictions of non-verbal communication, online users need to develop slightly different approaches to communication and this altered communication opens the door for an altered personality.
Part of my online personality wishes to let others know a bit about me that I wouldn't normally show to strangers in real life - well, not at first. For instance, my 'location' is a homage to Descartes and my hi-fi is available for anyone to see as is the explanation of why I like SACDs. This information can't be thrust upon strangers in real life. I'd be classed as a crazy guy if I tried to tell every Tom, Dick and Harry about it.
I understand that saying who we are in real life makes sense, but because we can't communicate in quite the same way on the web and need to alter our communications style and therefore, personality, the same etiquette and protocols don't be apply.
EDIT: I forgot to say that what I find frustrating is when members don't write anything about their real or web life!
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hirefox, sometimes the world wide net is NOT the place to advertise the who, what, when, where and how....and that one's identity, location, list of equipment one has in their respective arsenals is akin to an invasion of that privacy.
And anonymity is just that........and sorry if you consider it anti~community but if one really wanted to, they could just about crack any code (read hackers) if that anonymity was to be compromised.
That is what e~mail is for and many on this site communicate through that channel of exchange to have more personal conferences with one another.
Besides, code names are so James Bondish...........don't you think?
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Post by zeus July 24, 2012 (5 of 46)
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hiredfox said:
Zeus for heaven's sake stop this practice - insist on proper names and at least country of origin or banish people from OUR site.
I'd dearly love to move to a "Real Names" policy (and this be a condition of posting) but don't know how to implement it. Suggestions anyone?
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Post by Claude July 24, 2012 (6 of 46)
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Most online communities don't require real names, so I don't understand why it should be the case here.
You have to understand the difference between the real world and the internet. I like to participate in discussions on various subjects on the internet, but I don't want someone to be able to gather everything I've posted online with just a quick google search. If the internet wasn't a big database, where everything is kept forever and can be found easily, it wouldn't matter that much.
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I use my moniker on different forums and websites, but it is not exclusive.
I wouldn't want another Funky Monkey's views attributed to me on another site where I don't exist.
Anonymity allows me to be more outspoken, silly, provocative, than I would feel comfortable using my real world persona.
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Post by windhoek July 24, 2012 (8 of 46)
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FunkyMonkey said:
Anonymity allows me to be more outspoken, silly, provocative, than I would feel comfortable using my real world persona.
Agreed!
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Post by kaalkop July 24, 2012 (9 of 46)
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Claude said:
You have to understand the difference between the real world and the internet. I like to participate in discussions on various subjects on the internet, but I don't want someone to be able to gather everything I've posted online with just a quick google search. If the internet wasn't a big database, where everything is kept forever and can be found easily, it wouldn't matter that much.
Couldn't have said it better.
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Post by chenzl July 24, 2012 (10 of 46)
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kaalkop said:
Couldn't have said it better.
Agreed. I believe majority of the contributors here are sincere irregardless of their identity. There are enough of data collection on the web, so I don't need another one to put my personal data at risk - that with due respect to the webmaster. AND SOME SITES YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT, I am not so sure about this site.
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