Anonymous Posting. Options

[*Monochrome.*]

Well as I was looking through Mod.Preformance thread.I noticed theres alot of fighting and bickering in there.Now sometimes because of this reason Members feel that they need to make a different account just that they can get their point across without having to reveal who they are,So that it wont look likethey have a personal problem the mod they are critiqing on.

However,With power to IP track identitys become Revealed and then more problems arise.

My Idea is to have a anonymous post ability where it cannot be IP tracked unless they are member bashing, or spaming or whatever.

What do you think?

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Libertie: The only problem I had with you IP checking was that she stated before that it wasnt necessary to know her identity for her to give her opinion upon the mater. She also had dodged the subject a few times when people asked who she was.

Just because I have something to say doesn't mean people have to know my identity. I'm just someone. Okay? If I don't want my identity known, then I don't. I'm not going to be an a-hole about this, so I'm just going to drop it here.

But when you did find out who she was she seemed fine with it, but me personally I would be irked if someone didn't respect my clearly stated wishes.

Thats all, no harsh feelings.

And by my post I in no way implied that I was taking away the so called "fun".

[*Libertie*]

Rebecca - LOL I try not to go postal on people like that, but you never know when it's gonna happen.

Alright, I understand that this isn't Diana's point in this topic, but anyway.

Libertie: The only problem I had with you IP checking was that she stated before that it wasnt necessary to know her identity for her to give her opinion upon the mater. She also had dodged the subject a few times when people asked who she was.

But when you did find out who she was she seemed fine with it, but me personally I would be irked if someone didn't respect my clearly stated wishes.

Thats all, no harsh feelings.

And by my post I in no way implied that I was taking away the so called "fun".

Disagreeing me is hardly taking away the "fun", you're taking what I said into an entirely different context. That's alright. Let me explain why I don't think doing the IP check is a big deal or anything to get upset over.

For one, only four people on this site (five, I guess, Jusun has been around lately) currently have the power to do the advanced IP check. The other staff members can SEE IPs in their respective forums, but unless they go around individually comparing IP addresses, it's highly unlikely that more than a couple of people will find out who's on the duplicate account.

For two, when those three or four people DO find out who that user is, the reason they've been given that responsibility is because they're mature enough to handle keeping a secret when it shouldn't be leaked to the rest of the community. I didn't go running backstage to tell everyone, I didn't go tell the people in the chat, I understood that she hadn't done anything wrong and at that point I didn't need to say anything.

Anyway, I see something out of the ordinary and I check it out. Again, I don't see what's wrong with knowing if it's handled correctly, and since I know that it irks people when I say something about it, I'll be sure not to mention it in the future.

Now I totally understand that sometimes people might be afraid to say something negative about me or Rebecca, or one of the admins, and for some reason might not want us to know it's them. First of all, I'd like to say that we are all very approachable people and we know to take criticism seriously without getting defensive. If anyone's afraid to say something negative about us or tell us what they think we should be doing differently, by all means, don't be! But if you really don't want us to know it's you, you can PM an admin to have them post it anonymously for you, and if you don't want THEM to know who you are, they both have AIM accounts or you can e-mail them. I hope nobody's scared of us, though. Again, sorry for dragging this off the original topic, I hope I was able to tie things in at least somewhat.

And with that, I'm late for work, so. *runs out the door*

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Rebecca - LOL I try not to go postal on people like that, but you never know when it's gonna happen.

Alright, I understand that this isn't Diana's point in this topic, but anyway.

Disagreeing me is hardly taking away the "fun", you're taking what I said into an entirely different context. That's alright. Let me explain why I don't think doing the IP check is a big deal or anything to get upset over.

For one, only four people on this site (five, I guess, Jusun has been around lately) currently have the power to do the advanced IP check. The other staff members can SEE IPs in their respective forums, but unless they go around individually comparing IP addresses, it's highly unlikely that more than a couple of people will find out who's on the duplicate account.

For two, when those three or four people DO find out who that user is, the reason they've been given that responsibility is because they're mature enough to handle keeping a secret when it shouldn't be leaked to the rest of the community. I didn't go running backstage to tell everyone, I didn't go tell the people in the chat, I understood that she hadn't done anything wrong and at that point I didn't need to say anything.

Anyway, I see something out of the ordinary and I check it out. Again, I don't see what's wrong with knowing if it's handled correctly, and since I know that it irks people when I say something about it, I'll be sure not to mention it in the future.

Now I totally understand that sometimes people might be afraid to say something negative about me or Rebecca, or one of the admins, and for some reason might not want us to know it's them. First of all, I'd like to say that we are all very approachable people and we know to take criticism seriously without getting defensive. If anyone's afraid to say something negative about us or tell us what they think we should be doing differently, by all means, don't be! But if you really don't want us to know it's you, you can PM an admin to have them post it anonymously for you, and if you don't want THEM to know who you are, they both have AIM accounts or you can e-mail them. I hope nobody's scared of us, though. Again, sorry for dragging this off the original topic, I hope I was able to tie things in at least somewhat.

And with that, I'm late for work, so. *runs out the door*

Alright, although it's good to stay on topic. I think that it's rediculous for people to be "forced" to walk this ridged line to stay "on topic". There may be several issues surrounding a topic that seem so far "off topic" that we may fail to recognize their relevancy to the topic.

We need to stop being so strict if we're going to get anywhere. I guess I just don't think you should have appologized. I think that what you brought up was one of the underlying or invisible issues surrounding the topic at hand and it needed to be addressed. For people to acuse you of being "off topic" is just plain ignorant.