Okay, we've had it!
Anybody who's too friggin' stupid (and/or paranoid) to hit the "nickname" button, and pick their own 'unique" handle on this blog before they post, will hereafter find their "anonymous' ID post summarily deleted.
We're finding it increasingly hard to understand people who fail or refuse to grasp this simple concept.
The multiple anonymous posts have become embarrassing here, and hopelessly confusing.
Case in point
"Anonymous" posts will now be banned - period.
WTF is wrong with you people who can't even pick your own unique ID?
Sheesh!
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31 comments:
Let me be the first to say:
Right on, Rudi!
May I be the second (only cuz I just read the new thread!) to say bravo, kudos, and huzzahs to you, Rudi!
Shoulda done this a lonnnnng time ago!
Thanks, Monotreme!
The best method to have "cred" here, of course, is to sign up with a google account:
Google signup.
Be sure to write down your user name and password once you've registered!
That way serious readers can avoid imposters.
This won't be appealing to trolls, of course.
Rudi...I see that "other" now has two hits in the worst mayor poll....c'mon...just hitting 'other' isn't good enuf. Make 'em tell, Rudi!
Thanks, Sharon. Some thought our Comment Posting Policy was somewhat belated too.
We confess we continue to adhere to the "liberal" and naive idea that that human beings are inherently good in nature, and that adults on the internet are are fully capable of behaving as growunups.
Sadly, a small percentage of the population always proves us wrong, and ruins it for everybody else.
Thus our new policy.
Moe (formerly anonymous).
Got it.
We got it too.
[wink]
Two points, for Rudi:
1. Liberal is an honorable term with an excellent historical pedegree and does not need to be placed in quotes every time it is used to indicate skepticism or whatever.... nor do any liberals I know hold to the indefensible proposition that all people are inherantly good. And given the performance of conservatives in the White House over the previous seven years, I'd be embarassed if I were a conservative to chage anyone else with being "naive." [Remember "Mission Accomplished" and the "cake walk" in Iraq?] But then again, of course, I'd also be embarassed to admit in front of God and everybody that I was a conservative. No accounting for tastes I guess... [grin]
2. Since someone a lot more blog savy than I am hit on the idea of replying to anons by appending the time of the post being replied to [e.g. Anon 4:58], the multiple anon problem seems to me to have disappeared. Doing that, tagging anons with a post time when replying, identified the exact post being responded to and eliminated [for me] most of the confusion. If the new policy ends by limiting the number of people who post here, it will have done I think more harm than good. Some of the anon. posters have been abusive or juvenile or both, but as I recall over time some anon posters have said interesting and substantive things, and have triggered what I thought as I read them were interesting conversations.
I have to agree with using a screen name when posting here. [e.g. Anon 4:58] does not quite cut it for me. Only because it makes it a little more difficult to track who is saying what from topic to topic and even within the same topic. To have 6 different Anon's makes it difficult to know if 3 of them are from the same person or not.
--Waterboy (former Anon)
Screen names are fun and help with the conversational flow. Use your sense of humor, half the fun is imagining the meathead behind the moniker.
Curm,
While replying to "Anon 11:07" is helpful, not everyone did it. Several(?) of the Anons were particularly clueless
PEOPLE!
It ain't that complicated.
Just type in a fake name, like Moe, Curly or Larry, so's we can tell you apart.
We already have your IP address, the moment you log on, same as every other website you visit.
Just try it, please.
(and if your boss is tracking your web usage, he's gonna know you've been web surfing, regardless of whether you post under the screen name "anonymous" or... say... "the masked salary pilferer."
Off-topic:
Tonight the City Council is scheduled to vote on a proposed rezone of the property west of Wall and north of 20th, from manufacturing to CBD (central business district). I believe that Gadi Lesham (FOM) owns much of this land. I'm trying to get more information about what's going on and will post a summary if possible. But on its face, this sounds like an effort to stretch the central business district even thinner.
Correction: Tonight the Council will merely set a public hearing (tentatively April 10) to receive input on the rezone. So the actual vote on the rezone will not take place tonight. Sorry about the false alarm.
I've just reviewed the information that was given to the City Council on this. It includes no mention of the landowners' plans (if any) for the property.
Can I just type in some random characters every time I post? That way I can still be anonymous.
Also, how do you track the IP address of dial-up people? Aren't thier addresses randomly assigned every time they log on?
"Can I just type in some random characters every time I post? That way I can still be anonymous."
Yup. See how easy that was?
The best approach, however is to choose your own unique nickname, so your posts will have some consistency.
Aren't thier addresses randomly assigned every time they log on?
Every webmaster uses access logs to track who logs on to a site. Most ISPs assign fixed IP addresses to individual users. Very few don't. In your particular case your IP address is fixed. Nobody is truly anonymous on the internet.
"Anon 7:52" makes me feel like I'm reading scriptures.
I've been wondering how long it would take you lunkhead blogmeisters to do this!
Thanks.
In your particular case your IP address is fixed. Nobody is truly anonymous on the internet.
That sucks. So you know of all the crazy things I've said, all the rumors I've propogated, and all the unwarranted criticism I've transmitted? And all this time you've simply chosen to ignore my annoying, diabolical rants without outing me. I sure do appreciate that.
Does this mean you also know when the Giegers are posting as "anonymous"? Not that we can't tell from just reading it.
From now on, I'm going to the library to post.
I picked my name.
I have my handle. it stands for weber county crime fighter
FYI on Eminent Domain:
Just posted, a longish study of the political reaction nationwide to the Kelo case [in which the Sup. Ct. ruled in favor of a Connecticut city using eminent domain powers to take the homes of residents for another private development].
It is by George Mason U. School of Law professor Ilya Somin and can be found here. The title is: The Limits of Backlash: Assessing the Political Response to Kelo
Here is the first paragraph of the abstract: The Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which upheld the power of government to condemn private property for purposes of “economic development,” generated a massive political backlash from across the political spectrum. Over forty states, as well as the federal government, have enacted or considered post-Kelo reform legislation to curb eminent domain. This Article is the first comprehensive analysis of the legislative response to Kelo. It challenges the validity of claims that the political backlash to Kelo will provide the same sort of protection for property owners as would a judicial ban on economic development takings. Most of the newly enacted post-Kelo reform laws are likely to be ineffective.
On a not entirely unrelated matter, there is a marvelous picture on the front page of today's print edition NYT that kind of symbolizes the stubborn individualism that used to be considered typically American. It's from China . [No, not Formosa. The big China.] And yes, it relates to the eminent domain matter. It can be found on line here.
Enjoy....
WTF and WCCF:
As Robocop said in a film of the same name:
"Thank you for your cooperation."
;-)
I think this new "anonymous" ban is arbitrary and capricious.
It is prejudicial to us members of the Anonymous family.
Only a person that lacks the veracity of their character would only be worried about somebody else. After all, you comment does seem a bit delusional
Too funny!
Some nitwick geek just posted something quibbling abour our possible mis-characterization of the process for assigning "static" IP addresses.
Under an article announcing the banning of posts under the ID "anonymous," this "Einstein" posted under the "anonymous" ID.
Shallow end of the gene-pool?
Very likely.
Be careful where you skinny dip!
Rudi......out of 2 million sperm, that wanna be "anon" blogger was the fastest.....
that my friend is too funny!!
Carl:
Where do you skinney dip?
Depends on who is in the pool too.
HEY!!! How come I came up as
anonymous'? I posted as Carl...thought Anon was verboten?
But Anti Gay...I culd skinny dip with you if you really ARE anti gay!
That's ok Carl. We'll let that anonymous post stand, inasmuch as you took the time to clear up the ambiguity in the following post.
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