All the talk of anonymous posts diverts attention from the horrors CPI (No men’s names there) is inflicting on the forests near the Haw, or the horrors of the land DOT (no names there unless you dig for them) is taking from our parks system and local residents for Vinfast.Continue Reading
Carmen is an excellent example for my post on anonymity! She has manufactured blanket assignments of racist intent and even conjured up a racial epithet that isn’t a racial epithet at all, and dismissed those who disagree because they surely must be evil. You are not illustrating that anonymous peopleContinue Reading
Gene’s dissertation from 2007 certainly explains the topic and the decision to allow anonymous posts. My short version of Judge Hand’s opinion; One may often be the smartest/most knowledgeable person in the room. One is never smarter/more knowledgeable than all the people in the room. And now we add Google!Continue Reading
Gene has always chosen to defend anonymous posters on the Chat List, which is a PUBLIC platform. It wouldn’t be an issue if what anonymous posters said was fair. But what readers object to is the disrespect it shows for all members of our community. We’re talking about real peopleContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:16:10 -0400 From: “John R Dykers Subject: anonymity Having written for a statewide publication under a pseudonym, I recognize the tradeoffs involved with signing our posts with our real names. The difference seems to be that an “argument” is intended to be “won” and aContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 10:44:28 -0400 From: chathammatters Subject: Responding to Karen Crowell Karen Crowell, I am completely confused by your post. You seem to be confusing me with someone who writes under the name of Whatzup. I don’t know who Whatzup is or what they do for aContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 00:11:51 -0400 From: John R Dykers Subject: Anonymity and pseudonymity and signed posts Tom Sisk wrote “Especially if you posted insults and incivility.” Others have rationally defended unsigned posts. My synthesis is that when we post we seek civility in tone no matter the disagreementContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:35:59 -0400 From: cryptik Subject: Dear Chathamites on Anonymity Dear Karen Crowell: I fear that you have already decided your conclusions before hearing the information, and therefore are of a sufficiently closed mind that you cannot participate in a logical debate on the subject ofContinue Reading
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:45:46 -0400 From: tom sisk Subject: Anonimity If you don’t have the courage of your convictions sufficient to stand behind your words – unhidden by pseudonym – then I can only assume that you aren’t saying anything worth listening to, anyway. Especially if you postedContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:24:35 -0400 From: “John R Dykers” Subject: Karen Crowell post 27 Apr re anonymity And I agree with Karen Crowell partly – “hiding behind a pseudonym in order to be nasty” is what we are really trying to avoid on the Chatlist, but “nasty” weContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:16:49 -0400 From: John R Dykers Subject: Cryptic Post on Anonymity 27 Apr. I appreciated Cryptic’s conversational analysis and especially his notation of his consistent pseudonym. On point he might reconsider; “Text carries no intonation,” Actually, that is what good writing is, text that hasContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:21:40 -0400 From: chathammatters Subject: Anonymity There are many examples of anonymity in publication throughout history. Here are two famous examples from our founding fathers: Publius, a pseudonym representing the trio of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in the Federalist Papers. Silence Dogood,Continue Reading
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:52:32 -0400 From: leela ellis Subject: Gene’s Reasons Gene, thank you for such a well reasoned response about anonymity. If someone needs the shield of anonymity in order to express or provoke discussion, then thank you for allowing that expression. It is healthy for ourContinue Reading
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:09:31 -0500 From: cryptik Subject: Thanks to my opponents for proving that I am right The name-calling (particularly terms such as “coward”) and mockery (someone wasted all that time to set up a fake Gmail account and join it to the list solely to mockContinue Reading
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 21:21:51 -0400 From: Gene Galin Subject: My Take on Using “Real Names” The discussion about using “real names” on the chatlist [and bulletin board] comes up every several years (usually around election time). Please don’t underestimate the chatlist [and bulletin board] member. Chatlist [and bulletinContinue Reading