this place is anonymous, just make a burner account
Psuedo-anonymity like usernames breeds assholes (See: Basically every comment section/reddit/forum.) but actual anonymity breeds super assholes (See: Basically every chan.)
So true it’s sad. I have to block people daily
Every last chan? Every?
Facebook is worse
Yeah much better to have your account your real name plus birthday plus social security number.
Ahh yes the only possibilities in life are two extremes and nothing else. Thank you for your poignant insight.
It is almost like being anonymous is inherently binary.
Just like how ground beef only comes in two forms, completely raw and cooked into carbon.
Please explain to me your idea of being semi anonymous. Then define the term opsec.
lol opsec
get over yourself.
It already is? Just create an anonymous account.
Technically psuedonymous but gets the job done
Anonymity generally just gives people a pass to be even bigger assholes. I’m good.
How would blocking / muting work? I imagine anonymous posts to be, on average, worse that even burner-account posts.
With better meta moderation tools, like slashdot used to have, it would be good
But anonymous posting works already, you did it using a brand new account to post this post.
It would be basically an imageboard like 4chan. Those have their advantages and disadvantages. I think it should be a thing in principle but communities should be allowed to say they don’t want anonymous posts.
I personally don’t see the value. If I’d want to talk about stuff, I don’t want my username associated with, maybe
- the internet is not the right place to have this discussion or
- I wouldn’t want it associated to my account by any means, so would most likely create a burner account.
I also wonder if it wouldn’t make moderation harder?
Sounds like you have nothing to fear. Soon you’ll have nothing to say. Dumbest comment of the year “the Internet is not the right place to have this discussion”
I think there is a misunderstanding here. I didn’t say that there is no value in discussing commonly suppressed or censored topics on the internet. I said that I would not want them associated with my regular account, which I believe is a good practice, especially if discussing said things could put you at risk.
Wouldn’t mind, as long as there’s a (default on?) setting to hide anon posts and comments.
Wow an actual thoughtful solution. Well played.
You could learn from this person, since all your other responses are adversarial.
Lol. God’s plan.
I think it would be kind of like colliding Reddit and 4chan.
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@[email protected] are you just asking a lot of questions to keep us busy? Or are you reading this, just not commenting (yet)?
No, thx.
How would you feel? Why just ask the question?