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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ballygrl on April 09, 2011, 08:23:45 PM
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WTF? does this person actually think flame wars wouldn't take place? Am I reading this wrong because otherwise I have no idea what this persons point is.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x853533
Boojatta (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-09-11 04:04 PM
Original message
Would you donate your DU username to a collective of individually anonymous DU users?
You would sign in as you always have. Nobody other than you would use your DU username to sign in. What would be affected is the name that appears in posts. Every time that any member of the collective posts a message, the correspondence between members of the collective and temporary usernames assigned to members of the collective would be thoroughly mixed in a random manner. If you were a member of the collective, then you might occasionally notice that your post appears as posted in the name that you use to sign in, but if the collective is large then it would rarely happen.
There could be a warning included automatically in every post by a member of the collective: "temporary name assigned for this one message."
I think that such warnings would dissuade people from starting flame wars. What do you think?
An alternative idea would be to assign a temporary username that remains fixed during any one day. That way it might be easier to understand back-and-forth dialog that occurs on a thread within one given day. However, flame wars might be somewhat more likely to arise under a whole day system because there would be as much as a whole day available for people to acquire a disliking of a given DU member who posts under a known name for a whole day.
dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-09-11 04:08 PM
Response to Original message
2. Perhaps post this in Ask Administrator, first?
Boojatta (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-09-11 04:14 PM
Response to Reply #2
5. In principle this place is completely controlled by the Admins ...
but in practice I think that the members have a lot of influence, and I'm interested in the opinions of ordinary DU members.
Cleita (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-09-11 04:11 PM
Response to Original message
4. No. Thanks, but no thanks.
ixion (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-09-11 04:16 PM
Response to Original message
7. Why not just create a group of anonymous users anon1, anon2, etc
Wouldn't that be more anonymous?
Boojatta (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-09-11 04:24 PM
Response to Reply #7
13. Yes, it would be more anonymous, but ...
the anonymous collective may consider their names more interesting and more varied than the names generated by your plan. They may consider this to be more important than the slight additional anonymity offered by your plan.
ixion (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-09-11 04:52 PM
Response to Reply #13
25. But they will also carry a context from the former proprietary owner
which has an effect as well... I wouldn't want just anyone to be posting under my user name. That's why I have one
ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-09-11 04:23 PM
Response to Original message
11. Why?
I'm sorry but I don't see the point of this
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-09-11 04:25 PM
Response to Reply #11
14. The point is to reduce the amount of flaming that occurs.
ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-09-11 04:30 PM
Response to Reply #14
17. Again, I have to ask why?
The mods take care of that and most of the people here seem to enjoy a bit of a flame now and then. It keeps things interesting.
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The DUmp would only need two names. DUmber and DUmbest.
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Wow. This is the dumbest forum proposal I have ever read.
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If they're all anonymous, how will they be able to ignore each other? :???:
:-)
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Wow. This is the dumbest forum proposal I have ever read.
This Boo nutjob posts weird stuff in the Poverty forum. IIRC she used to piss off Bobo the Hobo and Unnaturyl Wonder or whatever the heck its name is on a regular basis.
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I would have thought they would be all for this,it is merely a symbolic representation of what would exist if their wishes for government were to ever come true.
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If they're all anonymous, how will they be able to ignore each other? :???:
:-)
Just put anonymous, on their "iggy" list
Worked for Nads.
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I just don't understand what the purpose of doing that would be.
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I just don't understand what the purpose of doing that would be.
It's because you're not a DUmb****, Bally.
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Wow. This is the dumbest forum proposal I have ever read.
Yeah, you can almost smell the fresh pot smoke, can't you?
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Yeah, you can almost smell the fresh pot smoke, can't you?
Doubtful there's anything that would qualify as FRESH in DUmmieworld. I can envision hordes of DUmmies huddled over their Cheetos stained keyboard puffing madly away on the dregs of someone's discarded joint.
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Yeah, don't know how, but you're reading it wrong. The DUmmie is saying:
One of Us! One of Us! Gooble! Gobble! Gooble! Gobble!
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So stupid! The DUmp stars are distinctive. You could easily identify their posts even if there were no names attached. Everyone else, probably 99.8% of the DUmp, are already nameless, useless, worthless, anonymous members of the faceless mob, coach's unterprimitiven. So, to all those DUmmies debating anonymity, chill out, you're already anonymous.
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I'm late to this thread, but what a little gem!
What a perfectly Communist idea! You take all the proles, mix them up in a hat, and the comments generated by them are supposed to be understood to be taken as one and the same as any other prole in the Collective. Much like Maoist China, where people were given numbers instead of names. It's brilliant! Just need a gulag.
This is the most hilarious, dumbest idea I've ever heard of. Besides that, what's the fun of the internet without some flame? It'd be a thin gruel, indeed. Then again, that's what they eat at the gulag, if they're lucky.
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That is the most times I have ever seen the word "collective" used in my entire life.
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There are certain words, when I read them, sound as though said with a vicious sneer in my head.
Collective
Progressive
Liberal
Nancy Pelosi
Greater Good
Inherited, in the context of problems
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That is the most times I have ever seen the word "collective" used in my entire life.
Individually, or collectively? :tongue:
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Booj has been trying out the loose pills in the stash again, it seems.
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Doesn't 4chan have all anonymous posts and have a ton of flame wars?
This idea wouldn't stop anything, it would simply make it worse.
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The denizens of DU already identify with the collective mentality of the Borg. Why not make the transition complete.
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Individually, or collectively? :tongue:
:banghead:
Most of them are used to simply "collecting."
Collecting ****ing welfare.