I typed anonymity and it didn't look right to me either, so I figured I'd go for quirky crazy but endearing.
Huh. Didn't work, did it?
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
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Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
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
Deena - Jan 13, 2004 5:04:22 am PST #6470 of 10005
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Steph L. - Jan 13, 2004 5:05:14 am PST #6471 of 10005
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I like anonymousness. It's fun to say.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 13, 2004 5:14:10 am PST #6472 of 10005
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I like the idea. It's foamy.
Deena - Jan 13, 2004 5:19:41 am PST #6473 of 10005
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
AM!
I've been thinking about you for the last few days and missing you lots. (Oops, I'm nattering, but.. it's Am!)
Nutty - Jan 13, 2004 5:20:52 am PST #6474 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I'm for it. Anything to get "embiggen" into the dictionary. Not that we invented it, but it is a word that pleases me no end.
I do think that it's something we probably want to vote about, just to dot and cross all Is and Ts, but we can wait, get all the details, (and be gleeful and go forth and spout neologisms,) and formalize stuff, and then vote. (Which thus far sounds like it would be a landslide, but maybe people who don't like the idea haven't spoken up yet.)
Jessica - Jan 13, 2004 5:55:39 am PST #6475 of 10005
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm very in favor of the project, but I think it has to be opt-in. I don't feel comfortable giving permission for anyone's posts to be used but my own.
Astarte - Jan 13, 2004 6:39:46 am PST #6476 of 10005
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Even if the posts will be anonymized, as in the example above? While our experiences are extremely unique, I haven't really seen them as unusual. Identifying individuals with the personal details of name and place stripped out seems pretty unlikely.
I do think we need a full proposal to be sure we can make an informed community decision, but so far I'm all for it, and thinking up words to seed future linguistics with even as I type.
Modigy, anyone?
Lyra Jane - Jan 13, 2004 6:47:19 am PST #6477 of 10005
Up with the sun
Identifying individuals with the personal details of name and place stripped out seems pretty unlikely
I would agree with that, but there's one thing I'm not sure about: Will everything frm the board just be listed as being written by buffistas.org, or will it still be attributed to individual posters? If it's broken down by individual poster, I can see the privacy concern, simply because a mass of words makes it easier to identify someone than any single sentence does.
Katie M - Jan 13, 2004 6:47:59 am PST #6478 of 10005
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Oof. I'm... a little uncomfortable with the idea, which surprises me, since I am not one who thinks of myself as particularly anonymous online and I consciously watch what I say because of that.
Though thinking about it some more, it's just a few more lurkers, right? I mean, this isn't going to be Immortalized Publically For All Time, and I don't worry about the other three hundred random people I've never "met" reading this right now.
Miracleman - Jan 13, 2004 6:52:27 am PST #6479 of 10005
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I think this is a fantuwondrous idea!
So long as we find a workingish strategery for optifying out, if individupersons so desire.
I vote affirmsolutely!