The anonymous posts are not truly anonymous. If they were, MODS and Davjs wouldn't be able to see them.

Can we call them 'anonymous' then? Is this fair?

Just an idea I was pondering...discuss.

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What if someone spammed up the forums as anonymous? We would not be able to stop them if we couldn't find out who they are.

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Should say: "That is not what I meant at all. That is not it, at all."

Mods and administators need to be able to find out who the post is from for practical reasons. It's not displayed with the post.

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We have to be able to have the power to see them so we can moderate them.

What if someone spammed up the forums as anonymous? We would not be able to stop them if we couldn't find out who they are.

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If you said something though, and the MODS banned you, wouldn't you no longer be anonymous?

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Quote: from Artistic Drain at 6:42 pm on Nov. 16, 2006

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We have to be able to have the power to see them so we can moderate them.  

 What if someone spammed up the forums as anonymous? We would not be able to stop them if we couldn't find out who they are.

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If you said something though, and the MODS banned you, wouldn't you no longer be anonymous?

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If you said something that bad behind the cover of a shield such as Anonymous, which was intended to be used for people who have friends on the forum (and don't want them finding out about their problems/sexuality/whatever), and to abuse that privilege without the mods knowing about your identity is foolish.

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What are the mods going to do? Harass you?

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It's been done...

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Just because The name "blackadder" appears, DOES NOT MEAN I AM any more or less accountable for my actions than if i posted under the anonymous header.

The only time this isn't true is when friends, or others -- in "real" life know that I post here and my handle is.....

^ in my case, that was only ever once, but he was banned (x3) so nowadays I, as "blackadder" remain anyomous.

I have likened to it before, but the anyomous tag is a mask ontop of a mask -- pretty pointles*

*(unless the oringal mask was in some way defficient!)

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If ur a mod then ur meant to be grown up enough not to take advantage it.

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Intellectual forum, dear. We use real words like "your" here.

My opinion has pretty much been made here. The point of the anonymous function is not to grant you the ability to post secretly, it's to let you ask "oh shit, I'm starting to have sexual thoughts about other guys - am I gay?" without the fear of having people who know you both on the forums and in real life finding out. Even if it was standard procedure for the mods to check who the anonymous posters were or their account name showed up automatically under the word "anonymous" in their posts it wouldn't really defeat the original purpose of it or be a problem in my mind.

Besides, if you absolutely must have total secrecy and refuse to post on another forum you can take the time to go down to the library where there's a different IP, make a new account, and post from that.

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Quote: from bex101 at 2:41 pm on Dec. 13, 2006

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If ur a mod then ur meant to be grown up enough not to take advantage it.

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Intellectual forum, dear. We use real words like "your" here.

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