BS: Anonymity

Subject: RE: BS: Anonymity
From: GUEST, WYSIWYG
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 11:00 PM

Yoo hoo... Bill.... over here... HI BILL!

I just have a suggestion. For those of you who are frustrated about not being able to address an unnamed Guest. It's simple. Just do like they do in newgroups-- where names may appear but are often just e-mail addresses, or the post is so far back that ya wantna bring the words forward. In YOUR post, copy and paste, italicized, quoted, the material to which you wish to respond-- and go ahead and respond to it.

Por ejemplo.

RE Guest post: "The constant identity I used seemed to CAUSE people to ignore it."

I can relate!!!

~Susan

(Hey. Bill? Bye!)

Subject: RE: BS: Anonymity
From: Troll
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 11:53 PM

'Spaw, who the hell is Bill?

troll *heh heh heh *

Subject: RE: BS: Anonymity
From: Katcina
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 12:07 AM

Oh yeah, hi Bill. You're so quiet over there in the corner that I keep forgetting you're here.

Subject: RE: BS: Anonymity
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 02:29 PM

Yup WISY, you can always do that, like you can with a normal post. But with a normal post you can also put the name down, and anyone who's interested can check back and see if what you've quoted means anything different in context, which it sometimes can.

So I'll just stick with scrolling right past unadorned GUESTs, since most of the time they are in fact just trying to stir things up in an unfriendly way, in my experience.

Subject: RE: BS: Anonymity
From: Pseudolus
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 03:35 PM

I think it's the "guest" thing that might be at the heart of the occasional "inner clique" complaints. Ya see, after reading post after post by a certain individual they seem to take on a personality (in my mind) and I feel like I'm getting to know him/her. Consequently, I tend to respond to THEIR posts more often, calling them by (mudcat) name, etc., and sometimes it becomes a conversation. Not as many people responded directly to me when I first became a member but then again, no one "knew" me yet. Now, it's very different....I even got flamed in the flame thread a while back...I was so proud!! Anyway, it just occurred to me why we might occasionally hear the clique thing.....just a thought.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Anonymity
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 04:06 PM

Let's see...I have posted at least twice under a "guest" moniker. Once as GUEST:Wynton Marsalis to post a humorous (I thought) comment on different members' posting styles, and once as GUEST:The Man from MCIC in a parody on a folk-version of the Man from Uncle. Therr may have been other times. Sorry, don't see a thing wrong with it, and I'll do it again. I have come down hard on people posting as guest in order to flame or take cheap shots, but that's another thing entirely.

Subject: RE: BS: Anonymity
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 04:18 PM

Is this the real Matt_R? How can you tell? LOL Cuz I'm listening to "Feel To Good" by The Move and basking in the glow of spastic woodwinds.