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05-03-2006, 09:16 AM #1
Anonymity and Online Community: Identity Matters
Excerpted, is that a word? from the following article, worth a read.
http://alistapart.com/articles/identitymatters
Anonymity Can Wreak Havoc in a Community
Anonymity is a double-edged sword when it comes to an online community. While anonymity may allow people to feel more free and disinhibited to discuss otherwise embarrassing or stigmatizing topics, it can also be a community’s biggest enemy. Anonymity allows people to hide behind their computers while saying whatever they want with little ramification. Psychologists know that online community is far more disinhibited than face-to-face communications.1, 2, 3 Pair that disinhibition with anonymity and you have a recipe for potential disaster.
Some websites have discovered fairly innovative ways to allow for anonymity, but still filter out the disinhibited negative behaviors that often come with it. Slashdot, an old technology community weblog, has long had a moderation system that allows registered users to vote on the quality of comments in an article. So even if a user chooses to post something anonymously (for whatever reasons), that comment may still be considered of sufficient quality to be read by others.
Pseudonymity—anonymity that hides a person behind an online persona via a username—is common online. Many internet users have a number of different identities they use online, to allow them to explore different aspects of their persona, interests or hobbies. But pseudonymity is also the key to membership systems as well, as it allows members of the community to learn to identify other members they like or dislike based upon their behaviors and personality. Pseudononymous systems strike a balance between people’s needs to obscure their identities online, while still allowing them to build reputations in those usernames. These systems have been shown to work very well for an online community.
People build reputations in their usernames, and so their reputation becomes something they value and want to protect. Members who have an investment in something within your community are far less likely to blow that investment through inappropriate, negative behavior.
What's my point? What's your fucking point asshat?
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05-03-2006, 09:18 AM #2
Could yo imagine what would happen if we allowed each other to rate each others comments?
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05-03-2006, 09:25 AM #3
We'd have visual confirmation of what we already know!
Sprite"I call it reveling in natures finest element. Water in its pristine form. Straight from the heavens. We bathe in it, rejoicing in the fullest." --BZ
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05-03-2006, 09:25 AM #4Originally Posted by MassLiberal
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05-03-2006, 11:12 AM #5Originally Posted by MassLiberal"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Ben Franklin
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05-03-2006, 11:16 AM #6
this was boring and i didn't learn anything
Originally Posted by blurred
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05-03-2006, 11:32 AM #7
^^^ shut up and take your ridalin.
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05-03-2006, 11:44 AM #8Originally Posted by fez
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05-03-2006, 11:51 AM #9
^^^ It's not about thread rating, it's about community moderation of each reply comment. check out digg for an example. Like slashdot, instead of deleting posts the user can set their tolerence level and all comments below that level will not show, sorta like advanced ignore funtion.
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05-03-2006, 11:53 AM #10
They have something like this on ridemonkey.com. It allows user's to rate other users based on there post's. Good or bad with comments. Over here, we could have a field day with it.
Since then it's been a book you read in reverse, so you understand less as the pages turn.
The things you find on the net.
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05-03-2006, 12:06 PM #11
I thought anonymity was the problem, not the inability to poop on other people's postings ... wait, you can already do that.
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05-03-2006, 12:06 PM #12drowning
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The powmag board had some rating system, if I remember right.
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05-03-2006, 12:42 PM #13
Boy, times sure have changed. Remember the old days when you could just hide behind a blade of grass held up to your face?
FYI - I have information from a reliable source that CyberCop is really Fabio.
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05-03-2006, 12:53 PM #14rain
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Originally Posted by Cyber Cop
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05-03-2006, 12:55 PM #15
the beauty of this place is that oddly enough it self moderates...
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05-03-2006, 02:59 PM #16Originally Posted by flabango
I do have big pecs though.
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05-03-2006, 03:29 PM #17
Moobs!!!!
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05-03-2006, 04:12 PM #18
I prefer threads filled with cunting to threads filled with pooping. FWIW.
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05-03-2006, 04:20 PM #19
Speaking of anonymity... I just left a real stinky fart lingering over by the desk of one of the sales people litterally a minute before she walked in. I could tell when she got to her desk that she was trying to ignore it, and one of the other sales people thought it was her and kept glancing over at her in disgust.
That is what you call in inter-office fly-by."Have fun, get a flyrod, and give the worm dunkers the finger when you start double hauling." ~Lumpy
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05-03-2006, 04:40 PM #20
I think it's interesting how some people prefer to have one identity across connected communities (say, here and TTips), while others choose to hide the connections of identity, they have different names in the 2 places and don't necessarily want people to ID them from one place to the other. Note: I'm really not making any value judgment on that, I just find it interesting.
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05-03-2006, 04:42 PM #21Originally Posted by 72Twenty
someday the interweb will have a fart button. Max better start a poll to find out the ethics of using the interweb fly-by.
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05-03-2006, 04:47 PM #22Originally Posted by Cyber Cop
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05-03-2006, 04:47 PM #23Originally Posted by Andy_B
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05-03-2006, 04:51 PM #24Originally Posted by flabango
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05-04-2006, 06:26 AM #25Originally Posted by rideitSince then it's been a book you read in reverse, so you understand less as the pages turn.
The things you find on the net.
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