I can see dirk's question having legitimacy due to the fact that not all of us are always anonymous.
My husband is here, I also knew people in person who were on TOS... now that I am not on TOS I don't have that... but my husband is still here. We are not in total anonymity here - or anywhere usually.
Look at Kdog with his ex.
I can see thinking sometimes a person might like to say something without it coming back on them. At the same time.. I like feeling perfectly safe here to say anything I want about anything. And honestly - I do feel I can.
So I encourage Charles' points that we should keep that feeling of freedom, above devising how to gain a temporary anonymity. I like it better, but that is just me.
I honestly cannot think of anything anyone might do or say that would make me hold anything against them - even if I knew them in RL. God knows we all have our own quirks, and we should encourage free expression amongst ourselves so long as we are not hurting another.
Post by dirkgently on Nov 22, 2014 21:03:31 GMT -6
If you all must know, it was for supernatural stuff, personally.
I'm already 'anonymous" by being dirkgently, but my on-line persona might take a beating for some of the other things that I might want to post but felt that an additional layer of anonymity might secure some freedom from type-casting, as it were.
I like supernatural stuff. Considering it is good for mental flexibility and, being Catholic, I already have a strong belief in things that are outside nature.
I think we have a board set aside for spooky stuff, and two radio shows that would be delighted to have your contribution. You've called in to Reality Remix, you might like their shows even more.
I would be disappointed in anyone who tried to stuff a Hernando into a category. We all should have enough experience to know that stereotypes fall apart with the speed of a politician's promise. People who don't know that people have widely varying ideas, even ideas which sometimes contradict each other, don't know much about themselves or others.
I think you're right. That "Productive use" issue has me a little concerned. Everyone is supposed to be welcomed and respected here (That's why I mentioned "The Spirit of Hernando's"). Someone choosing to post anonymously seems to be saying, "I don't think my post will be respected."
If that's the case, it's either a very strange post, or the poster thinks he will be attacked by someone. In that case, come to me hippity-hop. (Sorry, Wrabbit, couldn't resist.)
I don't think it's so much in the spirit of "I don't think my post will be respected", I think it's more in the spirit of "I don't think my post will be respected by the Alphabet Agencies". That's the way I took it, anyhow - the desire to be "anonymous" to the world at large, and "guests" in particular. Over time, posters here will come to be more or less identifiable, and my take was that the question was intended to circumvent that - "for emergency use only. In the event of an emergency, break glass and grab anonymous mask".
Of course, that might just be my paranoia talking. It gets out of the cage some times, and wreaks havoc.
If it's serious stuff, I'm stuck. ProBoards can get into anything we have here. The only thought I have might be for you to post it somewhere else, and find a very devious way to tell me where it is. I can cut and paste it here as something I ran across. (After rephrasing it and scrambling it around a bit.)
I'm sure that NSA is laughing at my Kindergarten ideas, but perhaps we could ask some site experts if this is serious to you.
Seriously think about filing a complaint against her for harassing communications. You have no idea how many texts and emails I receive . That and she refuses to let me see my kids.
Was there a sane judge involved, or not?
Sounds like you need a good atny. Sheesh.
Stalking is not cool.
Crazy stalkers have done some very dangerous-to-health stuff to their victims.
I'd worry about the potential for abuse having an Anonymous Poster function, too. That got me thinking, however, about the potential for a posting "Safer Haven" section on here, perhaps a password-protected one limited in access to those who have been given the PW after a request in (short) detail to a mod of Charles? Sort of like TOS' post-locked section, but more secure. Could this idea work? I can understand the desire, and in some cases, need for a more secure posting section
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I'd worry about the potential for abuse having an Anonymous Poster function, too. That got me thinking, however, about the potential for a posting "Safer Haven" section on here, perhaps a password-protected one limited in access to those who have been given the PW after a request in (short) detail to a mod of Charles? Sort of like TOS' post-locked section, but more secure. Could this idea work? I can understand the desire, and in some cases, need for a more secure posting section
Just bumping this one up as I think that this would be a good idea and I would also see a need for such a section...
Post by Pennylemon on Nov 25, 2014 15:36:12 GMT -6
I've been thinking a lot about this question and the need for occasional anonymity in order to openly discuss certain topics. My first thought was that this would indeed be in direct oposition to what HH is all about. The idea that once we begin to rationalize, could we then be opening the door to secrecies of a different kind? I'm certainly not implying that this would happen, it's just a thought I couldn't quite shake.
The more I thought about this however I do see that it's not so much about the trust or mistrust of members per se, but the need for a safe place so that members can feel free to bring to the table subjects or situations they might not otherwise bring up in the open.
To this end I do think Nyiah's idea is a good one, although a private group discussion can be had via HH's message system should a poster wish to use it this way. On the other hand this would still leave the OP's identity exposed.
Might it be possible to set aside a Forum in which the OP of any thread posted there would be anonymous? This way it would be available to all who wished to use it and would keep the anonymous moniker from crossing over into the general forum threads.
This seems to have become the subject of the hour. Believe it or not, privacy is being worked on at the moment, although from a different angle.
Would the posters who need to be anonymous, accept that the staff could find out? If not, would they accept that only I could find out? If neither is acceptable, then I have some real work to do.
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Wouldn't all of the posters in the thread have to be anonymous, too? I would think so.
Last Edit: Nov 25, 2014 16:44:02 GMT -6 by Charles1952
My main issue is, say I start a discussion on the reality of little green men from the planet Grinobulax.
Every discussion I have after that will be, "oh, he believes that Obamacare is wrong, but he also believes in little green men from Grinobulax, so take it for what it's worth."
We, all of us, are nothing but an amalgamation, a construct of what we say and profess on this site.
How can I be taken seriously, if (in another thread) I stated how awesome Katie Perry is! (and she is awesome, sorry. . . )