A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
My anti-sockpuppet post was:
Trudy, I think there's a difference between a conversation I'm not interested in (which I scroll by every day) and sockpuppet posts. I think tolerating sockpuppeting opens the door for further posting by personas, which can get harmful quite fast. Aside from that, I think it is obnoxious and borderline cruel no matter who does it and for what reason, and I'm sorry you find it a nice way to pass a Wednesday afternoon.
To which ChiKat asked me:
How do you see it as cruel?
To answer, "I know something you don't know" is, to me, a cruel attitude. "Cruel" might be overstating the case. Nasty, maybe? Childish?
I think there's a big difference between pretending to be someone else and making a joke. I thought the Universe and March were funny
But you knew who both were right away, yes? I think that makes a difference.
"I know something you don't know"
Meaning that a sockpuppet poster knows who they really are and we don't? Or, specifically, that The Universe persona Knows All as the Universe is wont to do?
I will freely admit, I was suprised when Clovis started posting, because I wasn't the one who created an account for my stuffed Devilbunny.
I'm kinda 'eh' on sockpuppet accounts. I can see where they will be fun for some people, but I'm also well aware that it can come across as
'Not enough people are paying attention to meeeee! Therefore I will create a joke account to post more stuff with!',
and that gets annoying very fast.
Don't we have a "God" Account around here somewhere? I think it's even one of the stompies. Has that been cruel?
And the Zombie Robots, and the Ferrets?
I think there's a big difference between pretending to be someone else and making a joke. I thought the Universe and March were funny
I'm with Kristin here. I didn't know who they were (still don't know who March was), but they weren't being mean to anyone, IIRC. Didn't bother me, but it obviously bothers others.
Betsy, can you post the original proposal to get LB going?
Huh. Well, along the lines of this discussion, but not really related, I think I'd like to change my account name to "D. Griswold". Recommended nickname for fast writting: Gris.
Why? Well, I'm pretty comfortable using my real name here, and it matches my LJ username.
This is the right place for this request, yes?
