Anonymous Posting

wow anonymous posting and I missed it. :(

I think we got to learn an important lesson though. This is one of the reasons allowing alts and sock puppets is a bad idea. If another person's antics last night did not prove it. This without a doubt sure did.

It would have given us the opportunity to fight amongst ourselves. Countless anon alts all taking shots and pretending to be other people. The Anon Concept is an interesting one, but not easy to pull off. We have seen countless anon boards fall because they got consumed with the aspects we don't show to the world.

Anon has an important place with PC becoming as rampant and pernicious as it is, but it can also be a dumping ground for darker aspects of human thought and can devolve quickly. A swimming pool can be great and relaxing, but allow the water to sit for too long and eventually it becomes a cesspool. It is why pools must be maintained and chlorine employed constantly. Unless there is running river of fresh thought - a pool or any body of water becomes a cesspool. Human thought is the same way.
 
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Valiant said:
Could there be an anon only board?
like something to take the autisn to one board where only a fool would take seriously. It would be fun to read all the posts but alas you have people ruining it.
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It was tried with the 8chan /kiwi/ board and didn't work out, though I would be curious to see how a non-imageboard version hosted here would turn out.

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Wow you don't say? ?? Jesus christ you're the worst admin ever
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Reminder that Kimmo Alm exists.
 
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Anonymous posting doesn't benefit a forum structure, at all.

Forums are meant to promote long-term discussion and give an identity to posters. It is much more welcoming when you know who everyone is. It allows you to build a relationship with someone else online and do so by exchanging ideas.

Anonymous posting has it's place but not on forums. The benefit to imageboards is very quick and dirty discussions where you can say what you want without fear of judgement or reprisal. Apart from breaking the rules, nobody knows who you are. And you're just a number to an administrator unless you use a tripcode. But it doesn't really promote longterm discussions and indeed imageboards die all the time because very few people post on them. And on the most active imageboards, topics get pruned all the time due to inactivity. Whereas a dedicated forum can last years with only a couple dozen active users.

I know Null has gone on record by stating he doesn't like forums because they promote circlejerking. But as much as I like imageboards, I prefer being in a place where I can recognize people and I can be judged on my prior and current viewpoints.

/cow/ is what you get when you mix anonymity with judging people. EDF is what you get when you don't have that many rules and promote things like halal frequently. I like this place because at least everyone's reasonably nice and I can return to old discussions if necessary.
 
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/cow/ is what you get when you mix anonymity with judging people. EDF is what you get when you don't have that many rules and promote things like halal frequently. I like this place because at least everyone's reasonably nice and I can return to old discussions if necessary.
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I hope you do enjoy it you selfish bastard.

Because for every kind, helpful post I make here, I'm kicking a kitten off a cliff somewhere else.
 
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Watcher said:
Anonymous posting doesn't benefit a forum structure, at all.

Forums are meant to promote long-term discussion and give an identity to posters. It is much more welcoming when you know who everyone is. It allows you to build a relationship with someone else online and do so by exchanging ideas.

Anonymous posting has it's place but not on forums. The benefit to imageboards is very quick and dirty discussions where you can say what you want without fear of judgement or reprisal. Apart from breaking the rules, nobody knows who you are. And you're just a number to an administrator unless you use a tripcode. But it doesn't really promote longterm discussions and indeed imageboards die all the time because very few people post on them. And on the most active imageboards topics get pruned all the time due to inactivity. Whereas a dedicated forum can last years with only a couple dozen active users.

I know Null has gone on record by stating he doesn't like forums because they promote circlejerking. But as much as I like imageboards, I prefer being in a place where I can recognize people and I can be judged on my prior and current viewpoints.

/cow/ is what you get when you mix anonymity with judging people. EDF is what you get when you don't have that many rules and promote things like halal frequently. I like this place because at least everyone's reasonably nice and I can return to old discussions if necessary.
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I can't agree enough. This is a forum for fuck's sake, I come here for the circle jerk.
 
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My big issue with anon is exactly what happened to /pol/, /b/, wizardchan, and a number of other anonymous boards.

I got a few autistic ratings for my previous description, so I will make it very clear what I meant. In the 3 examples I stated above, the boards devolved into competitions to see who could be the biggest political edgelord, the biggest trolling edgelord, or the biggest edgiest wizard loser. When new thought was introduced into these boards the thoughts were labeled and dismissed as coming from "newfags" , trolls, or normies. You had exactly the same type of phenomeneon on these anonymous image boards as you had with our favorite subforum here on the farms the Mr Enter subforum. Except I would argue that the Enter Subforum had one saving grace. Because thought was not judged by its content rather than its originator - regular respected posters could come in and introduce it without the thought being labeled as "heresy" based on its differing nature alone. People who were known and respected like Alan Pardew could say things to the posters and it would sink in to a degree. Yeah, the board collapsed anyway, but a number of its posters were able to learn something in the process. When /b/ collapsed, I am not sure if any of the "oldfags" involved ever learned why it was doomed to fail in the first place. Other boards and groups have spawned from them in time, but many have made the same mistakes already.

New thought is always needed in any discussion especially ones that are anonymous. Otherwise they become cesspools that are completely separated from rational thought. Those 3 examples are what anonymous discussion devolves into when it is not exposed to a constant stream of newer competing thought on a constant basis. If differing thought alone can become the enemy of discussion, then you wind up with cesspools.
 
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I do think anonymous posting could have some traction on this website, but only in the Forum Discussion section. Discussing issues in the forum and suggesting improvements without names attached could potentially be a good idea.
 
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Bring back anonymous posting for a bit I want to call Null a cuck and get away with it.
 
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