Some people might not want to UseRealNames and a RealPhoto, online. This flies in the face of DenotingAuthor convention used on this wiki. Possible justifications include:
This page discusses points such as these. The emphasis lies on an emotional response to a violation of existing social norms. The first person perspective was kept in order to emphasize the emotional aspect.
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Well, I think it’s just me personally – nobody on the Internet knows whether you’re a dog or not, but it is I who’d like to know! I feel like I’m walking on the street and this bum comes up to me and says, spare change? I wonder: Do I know you? Do you have a drinking problem I don’t want to sponsor? Are you mean to puppies? Are you a nazi? Have you stopped beating your wife? Trust is a difficult thing. It’s also about meeting social norms. All these little things are tiny tests to see whether two people belong to the same group, same class, same culture, same religion, same value system.
All I can say is that while names and pictures can be faked, refusing to announce my white male secular double-income no kids academic middle-class straight background is disingenuous. This is in fact my background, no matter whether I like it or not. We are challenged to overcome, to transcend, to reform, to improve – not to deny and hide. Are you a dog? If you’re not telling, I’ll just assume you are.
I feel like sitting in the train and talking to the guy next to me, saying my name’s Alex, and I’m interested in writing code and playing games, and who are you? And the other person says my name is none of your business and would you mind not staring at me while I speak? What follows is a moment of awkwardness.
I like real names and pictures precisely because I don’t like the anonymity of the Internet. I’ve found in the years of using UseNet, that anonymity breeds the kind of trolls I need to avoid. Life’s too short for trolls.
I’m sure Gandhi didn’t mean the abstract change for change’s sake. I’m sure he said something concerning the value of manual labour and then proceeded to do some manual labor. Or he said something concerning public protests and then proceeded to actualy walk around and do some protesting. Not just talking about change, but being part of the change. Dissenting to help others without telling them what needs improvement is a dick move. “You’re being punished until you find out why you deserve it.” Hell no!
If we all hid our gender, we wouldn’t even know that there is a problem! We’d be all goofy icons and half of us would fake being women. At least that’s the kind of dysfunctional community I fear and that I want to avoid. Be open about who you are and what you are, and if that makes us realize we have a problem, we can talk about it. That’s what I mean by denying – by hiding our gender we’d be denying the very real and important problem.
The same is true for race, social class, education, language preference, nationality, political agenda, and all the other myriad aspects of being human and alive.
To come to this community and demonstrating dissent is just rude. It doesn’t teach us anything, it doesn’t demonstrate anything, it doesn’t provoke anything, it doesn’t improve anything that would not be better served by just saying it, loud and clear for everybody to read, understand, and discuss.
Not following the rules is implying that we’re going to use your identity for nefarious purposes – misrepresenting your words, treating you with prejudice, intruding on your real life. I feel insulted by the idea. I prefer to be treated as an innocent, not as a suspect.
If you’re afraid of the general anonymous machinery that is the Internet and all the criminal and unsavory elements on it, and this is not something you want to share with anonymous readers – then maybe this is the wrong forum.
This is a public place. I have private places to talk about the things I don’t want to make public. You should get them as well. Don’t try to change this community so that you can talk the way you’d like to talk in a private place. It’s a public place by its very nature. To try and change that is denying it’s fundamental nature in the present. It’s disenfranchising.
Feel free to discuss the various sections at the end of each section. Or discuss issues that don’t match existing sections here. This page started out as a collection of quotes from JamBaltine’s page.
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