OMG The Anonymous Poster *excited girlish screech*!!!

[nfotxn]

No really. Can we all talk about more important things? I'd rather see your posts about Bad Telephone Customer Service Incidents or <lj user="faggotxyz"> style name dropping about your weekend. This mob scene witch hunt mentality is utter epitome of useless and hurtful LJ drama. Go play solitaire or minesweeper if you're bored at work. There's a whole global network full of billions of pages of information at your fingertips. Fuck, I know it's human nature to want to covet and gossip in groups but be an advanced 21st century monkey and use your willpower and intellect to curb that bullshit.

I'm not trying to make a simplified "Drama is bad, stop it!" post. I'm using my pressure as a peer to communicate what I see as more mutally beneficial behavior. Hopefully others will agree.

Fuck I hate preeching. I really do. The consequences always suck and yet I feel it necessary...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Um. Why allow anonymous posters to post on your journal at all?

I sure as hell don't. It's almost guaranteed to increase the bullshit quotient on your journal by about 5000%.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Because I have friends without Livejournal accounts who I want to allow to make comment. Additionally I try my best to keep skeletons out of my closet rather than running away from them.

[ericdabear.livejournal.com]

Well, it is kind of fun to have the "allow anonymous posting" feature on while also having "Log IP addresses on".

Then it turns the tables and it's more fun for the owner of the journal :)

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Enh, kinda beside the point that I try to seperate my ego from how I interact with people here.

If there's ever truly abusive comments made I'll make use of the service available to me.

[ericdabear.livejournal.com]

*nods* true.

In the case you use and cited, when having friends who don't have LJ accounts it's a good thing to enable.

I'm speaking only about those who use anonymity to gossip/bicker/etc. While my ego may enter into it I honestly believe that it's the inaccuracy and blatant disregard for "being a better person than that" that enrages me enough to comment.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

it's the inaccuracy and blatant disregard for "being a better person than that" that enrages me enough to comment.

If you don't mind me asking; Why does somebody trying to be a good person enrage you?

[ericdabear.livejournal.com]

I suppose I phrased that wrong?

I meant the disregard for trying to BECOME a better person.

Using anonymity as a shield while flinging dirt (or what the thrower thinks is dirt) does not make one a good person.

On the other side, rising (or sinking) to the occasion and entering into a flame war proves nothing of being better, either. I just bite the bait sometimes.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha! Yeah, I definitely and most whole-heartedly agree. We're flawed and fragile but being aware of our weaknesses makes us just that much stronger.

[dirtyglamour.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the sage advice O' ancient rune. ;)

I agree though...I hate watching human behaviour unfold sometimes. I'm sure I've been guilty of it at some point too.

buuuuuut.....

[daninca.livejournal.com]

it was the useless and hurtful anonymous posts that started the LJ drama up in the first place--why no mention of that?

I liked it better before you corrected your typo.

Re: buuuuuut.....

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I think that point has already been driven home in everyone's journal. I'm sure to the point of everyone knee-jerking into thinking anonymous posting is entirely wrong.

The idea is to provide a solution. If you're not part of it you become the problem. Pointing fingers is useless.

[shawnsyms.livejournal.com]

Ack! It wasn't something I said or did, was it? I hope it's not about my latest post, which had a reference to you of sorts...

Whenever I read one of these posts and I don't have a clue what it's about, I never really know how to respond.

I don't know if I am a part of the solution or a part of the problem...

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Oh not at all! This is about a group of people from Chicago and how they bring their local drama online. I feel like a big tard for writing about it. Trust me, I respect you enough to talk to you privately if something you ever said or did offended me.

[shawnsyms.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Brodie, I appreciate that.

I think we both agree that that is exactly how all interpersonal conflicts should be resolved: one-on-one, and outside of public fora.