Anonymous Keep/Remove Poll

What do you want to do with Anonymous posting?

  • Keep as is

    Votes: 4 8.0%
  • Remove completely

    Votes: 32 64.0%
  • Fix it for truly new users (based on source IP, if not known allow anon post)

    Votes: 5 10.0%
  • Post, but unable to make threads

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
    50
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its alright to be scared of making an account its very natural
Don't you think it is? this place is a bit like a bubble in a lot of ways. I've seen people get chased off so many times for being bad, or cuz they said something people didn't like.
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Rofl... this is literally hilarious. You are taking this small issue of whether or not it is fair for the community to have to wade through SOME anonymous nonsense simply because the FEW are too lazy to type in a trucking username and password. How much of their ever precious time would this actually take up.

The fact that you are trying to relate this to some sort of fascism or silencing is comedy. How old are you? I'm assuming you are a student at berkley or davis by the amount of ignorant trigger words used throughout that post.

Hoping I don't get banned for saying this to you but someone needs to. Save yourself the nonsense, and stop feeding people's absolute laziness.

Literally blows my mind people think like this, unless you are trolling and actually want the community to implode. If that is the case, bravo for your showmanship.
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It's a shame people don't realize it's literally the same thought process as wanting to expel people to create an ethno-state, only on a video game community scale. That's something i'm vehemently against personally. Many members who speak vocally against Anon's are the very ones committing the behavior they speak of as reason for banning, and do so with the intent to poison other peoples perspectives on Anon's, I know I can see IP's.

Fact is late into WoW the game has been becoming less and less of what it is every day for half a decade now, the community needs new blood like the Anon's to keep it going in the long term, because the "cliques" won't do it anymore, and the shitposting stinks just as much from members as it does from Anon's, probably less if it wasn't for the people actively trying to sabotage the new twinks who come here anonymously, yet there is outrage every time we ban a member, now some call for a banning, this is highly hypocritical.

Sure these Anon's may troll and shitpost like 85% of you guys do but they also post productively and keep the forums more active than they have been since Legion. Every Anon who visits this site the first time has the chance at becoming a full blown community member with their own account, which I know has been an occurrence on many occasions.

It would be nice to fine-tune the Anon feature but there's a lot of things we'd like to do here that we don't because we don't have the money or expertise to throw around.

I did not vote, I refuse to play any part in any discriminatory, self-defeating, and exclusionary exercise such as this.
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Here I found an identifying feature for you.
Rofl... this is literally hilarious. You are taking this small issue of whether or not it is fair for the community to have to wade through SOME anonymous nonsense simply because the FEW are too lazy to type in a trucking username and password. How much of their ever precious time would this actually take up.

The fact that you are trying to relate this to some sort of fascism or silencing is comedy. How old are you? I'm assuming you are a student at berkley or davis by the amount of ignorant trigger words used throughout that post.

Hoping I don't get banned for saying this to you but someone needs to. Save yourself the nonsense, and stop feeding people's absolute laziness.

Literally blows my mind people think like this, unless you are trolling and actually want the community to implode. If that is the case, bravo for your showmanship.
 
Rofl... this is literally hilarious. You are taking this small issue of whether or not it is fair for the community to have to wade through SOME anonymous nonsense simply because the FEW are too lazy to type in a trucking username and password. How much of their ever precious time would this actually take up.

The fact that you are trying to relate this to some sort of fascism or silencing is comedy. How old are you? I'm assuming you are a student at berkley or davis by the amount of ignorant trigger words used throughout that post.

Hoping I don't get banned for saying this to you but someone needs to. Save yourself the nonsense, and stop feeding people's absolute laziness.

Literally blows my mind people think like this, unless you are trolling and actually want the community to implode. If that is the case, bravo for your showmanship.
Perhaps you haven't spent much effort thinking about meta-cognition but a concept is a concept regardless of the scale on which it manifests. No need to get defensive, we don't ban people just for having unpopular opinions.
[doublepost=1520370716,1520370575][/doublepost]The irony that votes here are anonymous, yet the anonymous members themselves can't vote! ThinkingFace
 
Perhaps you haven't spent much effort thinking about meta-cognition but a concept is a concept regardless of the scale on which it manifests. No need to get defensive, we don't ban people just for having unpopular opinions.
[doublepost=1520370716,1520370575][/doublepost]The irony that votes here are anonymous, yet the anonymous members themselves can't vote!

Sweet. What people are you referring to specifically? The anons? who can literally bump their own posts to ensure that SPECIFIC INFORMATION is shown as trending?
 
Perhaps you haven't spent much effort thinking about meta-cognition but a concept is a concept regardless of the scale on which it manifests. No need to get defensive, we don't ban people just for having unpopular opinions.
Its literally people choosing whether or not to make an account on a website, and if people should be able to relate the posts to a user.
 
Its literally people choosing whether or not to make an account on a website, and if people should be able to relate the posts to a user.
At face value yes, for regular forum users, maybe so, but when you're in my position you have to consider the nuances, and the potential consequences.
 
It's a shame people don't realize it's literally the same thought process as wanting to expel people to create an ethno-state, only on a video game community scale. That's something i'm vehemently against personally. Many members who speak vocally against Anon's are the very ones committing the behavior they speak of as reason for banning, and do so with the intent to poison other peoples perspectives on Anon's, I know I can see IP's.

Its not as if these users can't create an account. They aren't being expelled. They (presumably) would still have full read access to the site. They simply need to make an account to post. I'm not going to try and make an analogy to some incendiary political viewpoint because they don't actually match up well and just serve to "poison other peoples perspectives on anons".

Fact is late into WoW the game has been becoming less and less of what it is every day for half a decade now, the community needs new blood like the Anon's to keep it going in the long term, because the "cliques" won't do it anymore...

Sure these Anon's may troll and shitpost like 85% of you guys do but they also post productively and keep the forums more active than they have been since Legion. Every Anon who visits this site the first time has the chance at becoming a full blown community member with their own account, which I know has been an occurrence on many occasions.

It would be nice to fine-tune the Anon feature but there's a lot of things we'd like to do here that we don't because we don't have the money or expertise to throw around.

This is a good point. Anons have certainly increased forum activity. Some anons are newbies looking for help who might make accounts. But is it worth the extra influx of trolling? How many newbies would really turn away if they had to make an account? I'd certainly be up for something like "anons can't make threads" and giving that a try to see if it helps. A newbie could ask a question on an existing post about gear or if people are queing AV on sundays or w/e. Presumably thats going to be easier to implement than tracking anons by IP?
 
At face value yes, for regular forum users, maybe so, but when you're in my position you have to consider the nuances, and the potential consequences.
This isnt V for Vendetta, this isnt Guy Fawkes, this isnt a conspiracy or deep meaning behind anything. People want to know who posts what, whether we know the user as anonymous99 or bulldog22.
 
At face value yes, for regular forum users, maybe so, but when you're in my position you have to consider the nuances, and the potential consequences.

Isn't you ignoring the democratic vote of your registered users in favor of an unknown populous kind of odd to you? Is this CNN or where tf are we rn?
 
Its not as if these users can't create an account. They aren't being expelled. They (presumably) would still have full read access to the site. They simply need to make an account to post. I'm not going to try and make an analogy to some incendiary political viewpoint because they don't actually match up well and just serve to "poison other peoples perspectives on anons".



This is a good point. Anons have certainly increased forum activity. Some anons are newbies looking for help who might make accounts. But is it worth the extra influx of trolling? How many newbies would really turn away if they had to make an account? I'd certainly be up for something like "anons can't make threads" and giving that a try to see if it helps. A newbie could ask a question on an existing post about gear or if people are queing AV on sundays or w/e. Presumably thats going to be easier to implement than tracking anons by IP?
A concept is a concept regardless of the scale it manifests. This forum is still less toxic than Twinkinfo was back in the day, the toxicity added here is not so significant, and its not even the problem, the problem here is WHO that toxicity is coming from, which makes this the definition of discrimination.
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Isn't you ignoring the democratic vote of your registered users in favor of an unknown populous kind of odd to you? Is this CNN or where tf are we rn?
Actually this wouldn't be considered a democratic vote, it would be considered direct democracy, which is a facet of many political ideologies. Unfortunately Anon's can't vote, and we are voting to expel people in their desired presence, so it's entirely corrupt.

Also i'm much further to the left than the liberal snowflakes who read CNN like the bible and are afraid to get their hands dirty.
 
A concept is a concept regardless of the scale it manifests. This forum is still less toxic than Twinkinfo was back in the day, the toxicity added here is not so significant, and its not even the problem, the problem here is WHO that toxicity is coming from.
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Actually this wouldn't be considered a democratic vote, it would be considered direct democracy, which is a facet of many political ideologies. Unfortunately Anon's can't vote, and we are voting to expel people in their desired presence, so it's entirely corrupt.

Also i'm much further to the left than the liberal snowflakes who read CNN like the bible and are afraid to get their hands dirty.
Its almost like theres a process (make a damn account) in which you have to go through to vote if you werent already a part of the society or something.
 
Many members who speak vocally against Anon's are the very ones committing the behavior they speak of as reason for banning, and do so with the intent to poison other peoples perspectives on Anon's, I know I can see IP's.

A concept is a concept regardless of the scale it manifests. This forum is still less toxic than Twinkinfo was back in the day, the toxicity added here is not so significant, and its not even the problem, the problem here is WHO that toxicity is coming from.

So here you say the problem is who the toxicity is coming from anonymously as well as say that you can view the IP's so you know who it is. Why not do something about it and solve the whole problem? Instead just continue to put your fingers in your ears and yell "LALALALALALALALA"

I know common sense isn't a common virtue and all but GD
 
Its almost like theres a process (make a damn account) in which you have to vote if you werent already a part of the society or something.
These anon's are apart of our society, it doesn't matter if they don't have a name, this vote is illegitimate because it only allows some to partake. It is corrupt by nature. I'm not saying that was the OP's intent, but it is what it is all the same.
 
So here you say the problem is who the toxicity is coming from anonymously as well as say that you can view the IP's so you know who it is. Why not do something about it and solve the whole problem? Instead just continue to put your fingers in your ears and yell "LALALALALALALALA"

I know common sense isn't a common virtue and all but GD
We're just volunteers and don't desire to micromanage the forum.
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OPEN THE BORDERS AND LET EVERY OTHER NATION VOTE IN US ELECTIONS!
It's not a bad idea considering how America is destroying the world one bomb at a time. Might even have a lot less dead people, then again American elections are less legitimate than even this vote
 
We're just volunteers and don't desire to micromanage the forum.

You allowing anons is counterproductive to what you just said. I know it's going to hurt but use your brain and think about what I'm saying here.
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These anon's are apart of our society, it doesn't matter if they don't have a name, this vote is illegitimate because it only allows some to partake. It is corrupt by nature. I'm not saying that was the OP's intent, but it is what it is all the same.

The anons are a part of YOUR society, the general concensus here is contrary to your point.
 
You allowing anons is counterproductive to what you just said. I know it's going to hurt but use your brain and think about what I'm saying here.
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The anons are a part of YOUR society, the general concensus here is contrary to your point.
This issue here is not that Anon's are unable to vote as was built in by the XF platform which i wouldn't mind changing if possible, this wouldn't be an issue atm but that a vote to expel them is taking place, that is where the contradiction lies, i'm not sure why you are fracturing your logic.
 
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