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| re: Why are people anonymous on this great list | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:37 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: Why are people anonymous on this great list - Naughty_Rob 03:31 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| The fact that you wrote "list" makes me wonder if you're mixing up listservs with chat boards. There tends to be less anonymity with listservs because people's messages are sent directly from their email accounts. On most every chat board I've ever been on — whether for theater, music, movies, politics or anything else — people are usually somewhat anonymous in that their screen names are not their full real-life names. As noted by others already, this board is less anonymous than many others. Many long-time members of this site know my full name, partly because I used to review books for this site (which I stopped doing mostly because I got tired of saying the same things over and over again as so many of the books I reviewed had more or less the same problems). Many of us know each other off the board (and we got to know each other originally through this board). |
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| re: Why are people anonymous on this great list | |
| Posted by: ashleylm 06:09 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Why are people anonymous on this great list - AlanScott 05:37 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| I'm anonymous (or, at least, only identified by my user name) because when I registered I was asked for my first name, my last name, and a username, and being a good boy I entered them all and used the username that I ordinarily use (my first name plus my initials), and it turns out that only the username is displayed. If there were a great hankering from anyone to know who I really am, I'd happily oblige, but I've assumed no one cares. I'm not remotely famous, and even in my home town would only be known to a select few who have seen my shows and happen to remember my name. |
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| re: Why are people anonymous on this great list | |
| Posted by: AC126748 06:43 am EDT 08/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Why are people anonymous on this great list - ashleylm 06:09 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| When I joined this site all those many years ago, I was still in high school, and it was still a time when parents and teachers cautioned us to never use our real names on the internet. (Seems quaint when I look back on it now.) Were I joining fresh today, I'd have no qualms using my actual name if I wanted to. | |
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| re: Why are people anonymous on this great list | |
| Posted by: eatstake 11:35 am EDT 08/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Why are people anonymous on this great list - AC126748 06:43 am EDT 08/17/17 | |
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| ^ This, although I used to tag posts on here with my initials way back when (I took a hiatus from this board and theater for about 12 years and couldn't recover the old username so there are not many who "know" me from then), I'm not in the habit of doing that now, but the premise was the same not to be immediately identifiable online. Now that social media profiles are everywhere and many people carry a computer in their pocket, it's a different approach. -BP For old times sake |
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