Anonymous Posting. Options

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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?

[*Intercourse.*]

^Explain please?

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^Explain please?

I was wondering whether it would be a good idea or not to grant people the chance to post feedback anonymously.

At that time I typed that I was thinking of a case in which a person who has never dared to post feedback openly, and now has been promoted to a staff position. This new mod receives negative criticism by an anonymous poster, how would the person react?

I honestly don't know the answer, so I thought I would ask. >_>

Changing subjects, answering to the opening post:

I personally would aim for a solution that aimed towards putting staff members and normal users closer. A staff member isn't the "Fist of Ju-Sun" and shouldn't be seen as someone with the ability to punish, only; there are hiring sessions for volunteers for a reason x(.

I think it would be more helpful to try to approach positions first than add features that could be interpreted as distancing staff members from regular users, in the worst of cases.

[*Uronacid*]

I was wondering whether it would be a good idea or not to grant people the chance to post feedback anonymously.

At that time I typed that I was thinking of a case in which a person who has never dared to post feedback openly, and now has been promoted to a staff position. This new mod receives negative criticism by an anonymous poster, how would the person react?

I honestly don't know the answer, so I thought I would ask. >_>

Well, I thought about this.... it wouldn't be a bad idea if it wasn't' abused. This would give people the ability to be honest about their feelings towards staff members without having to fear their wrath. They would have to react as if they didn't know who it was.

I think that this idea might be a good one. It would keep staff with a personal bias towards certain members of the community from taking things said my those members out of context by holding the post to their expectations of that member.

Changing subjects, answering to the opening post:

I personally would aim for a solution that aimed towards putting staff members and normal users closer. A staff member isn't the "Fist of Ju-Sun" and shouldn't be seen as someone with the ability to punish, only; there are hiring sessions for volunteers for a reason x(.

I think it would be more helpful to try to approach positions first than add features that could be interpreted as distancing staff members from regular users, in the worst of cases.

I completely agree with you... I feel like the staff of cB treats us like we're lower than then. I feel like they talk down to us at times. The "Fist of Ju-sun" sounds like a great movie title... XD

I don't know what you're trying to say in the second half.

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I completely agree with you... I feel like the staff of cB treats us like we're lower than then. I feel like they talk down to us at times. The "Fist of Ju-sun" sounds like a great movie title... XD

I don't know what you're trying to say in the second half.

I have had a reply in mind for a couple days, however I haven't been able to summarize it into a three or four paragraph post. Still, I would like to clarify my position about this subject even though Micron has covered part of what I intended to say.

First of all, I could see how the anonymous posting feature could be useful in some cases, but I wouldn’t go as far as calling that an improvement. There are some problems in online communities that do not have a virtual solution, but instead seem to demand the involvement of the users.

Trust problems or personal disputes (I don’t have an exact nomenclature for the issue Diana brought up) between users and staff members should be talked out. Even if the intervention of a 3rd or 4th figure is needed; being open to solve any problems seems a better option to me than to sweep things under the rug.

We do have the Moderator performance thread and the Feedback forum, as well as a wide range of staff members that can be contacted in case the subject that needs to be brought up for discussion is too delicate to be debated in an open environment. I would say that we already have the tools, what I feel we need to work on now is on our disposition to use them properly.

I am well aware that as people with a limited time to dedicate to CreateBlog and also with a limited experience in Internet community building efforts at first we will only be able to do so much in favor of a better communication between staff and regular users (and amongst each group, too).

Also, we can’t expect everyone to be willing to talk things out since everybody has a different degree of involvement with CreateBlog as well as a different way to deal with stuff. I consider the core of my post to be more of a personal decision rather than a general policy. Ultimately, it’s your own decision to make CB lean one way or another with the way you choose to act.

Even after having considered these facts, I am still in favor of direct user involvement over anonymous posting. A higher level of communication could eliminate some of the obstacles between staff members and users. It would help older members to get along together, and it would also set a good example for newer members of the site.

In a way, not only we’d be doing it for ourselves and the present CB members, but also we would be investing in the future “promotions” of Cbers at the same time.