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imstellar28
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anonymity doesn't change who you are, it reveals it.
Coming out, and a mild apology (Sift Talk Post)
How do you think anonymity affect VideoSift? (Sift Talk Post)
I am familiar with that cartoon. It's starting point, is the suposition of normal people.
For VS this suposition does not hold true.
I agree, BTW. I just thought it was a funny cartoon.
How do you think anonymity affect VideoSift? (Sift Talk Post)
I recently got a bit burned in my attempts to poll sifters about their attitudes concerning this site for use in a paper I am writing. At the start, I could not decide on the most ethical and impartial way to go about my polling here and, having guessed wrong, I was again uncertain whether or how to continue. Kind words from Dag and Burdturgler have encouraged me to ask the last two of five planned poll topics using my “real” account (this one).
Please ignore this topic if polling bugs you. I have noticed that people generally enjoy using SiftTalk to share their thoughts on various aspects of the Sift community and I continue to hope that you all will enjoy reading and writing here in that same spirit, even though I have created the topic with an outside agenda. I assure you, this has nothing whatsoever to do with marketing, it’s just my dopey homework. The questions I’ve been asking basically reflect the thoughts I already have concerning this site and it is interesting for me to see community members address these directly.
Answering my own question: Interestingly, though, this account is basically just as anonymous as the other one was. There is very little to connect the person I am at work, at home, at school, running for office (which I’m not) or anywhere else with the things I post and say here. I have only ever been a minor character here in the community, so I don’t suppose people here actually “know” me. Regardless of that, I do tend to take comments thrown “my” way a bit personally and I generally try to be cool to others by being helpful and positive, even though I can sometimes also be sarcastic and wrong. In other words, my personality here is pretty much like my personality in real life. However, being anonymous means that I might occasionally admit to things (either tacitly or literally, through votes or comments) that I would not otherwise do somewhere like LinkedIn or even FaceBook. I suppose a motivated investigator could pull it all together though.
Coming out, and a mild apology (Sift Talk Post)
I thought it would help keep things more impartial. I didn't want responses that might be somehow influenced by my previous video posts or especially my (often under-informed) comments. I figured it would be OK so long as I was upfront about it. In retrospect, not a great idea.
schmawy
In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hahaa. Nice avatar. Well that will surely add an interesting twist to a paper about online communities! Thanks for coming out.
Where do ideas come from?
The Fucking Flowers from Pink Floyd The Wall
Anybody know if these were restored in later versions of the CD?
We Are Watching You Online
Keep it phony, keep it safe. Let's all run through the bland machine! Nice advice.
jwray
P.S., I also really liked Robert Wright's talk at TED. (your favorite sift)
In reply to this comment by jwray:
*promote