Who are you?

Anonymous posters and anonymous regulars

Published on December 28, 2005 By Leauki In Blog Communities

Every now and then an anonymous (and temporary) poster replied to an article, usually in a rather stupid way.

The regular sometimes refer to such a poster as an "anonymous" poster.

Now, it appears that most regulars here are anonymous as well.

I realise that many regulars here believe they have very good reasons for not telling the world who they are. But I also think that many of these reasons are not very good, compared to the principle of standing up for one's own opinions and statements.

For me, informing people who I speak to of my name and contact details has always (since I was told that on Usenet) been a given; not something to consider and not do when there are too many arguments against it, but a part of every word I say, the pre-requisite of talking, unless really uncalled for. The "me" on the net is the same person as the "me" in real life. It's not a digital character, it's me myself and I.

Sometimes JoeUser displays my name, sometimes my login name (Leauki). I still haven't quite figured out why it switches between the two and when. It seems to have something to do with the forums and the blog site etc., but I always access JoeUser via the same link on my home page.

Anyway, for those of you who have somehow missed who I am, here's me:

Andrew Brehm
Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland
http://www.netneurotic.net
http://www.netneurotic.net/me/

(The CV is not current.)

And I would really like to know who all these people are that I keep talking to. If you still don't want to tell the world, just tell me:

andrew@netneurotic.net

Merry Christmas.

Comments (Page 4)

dharmagrl

on Dec 30, 2005

I'm late to the party, but....

My name is Karen, I'm in my mid thirties, and I'm married to an Air Force Police officer. We have 3 kids, aged 13, 11 and 9, and we live on a military installation in Illinois.

I knit - I sold something that I made for the first time last week - and I write (Hoping to get published one day). I'm a Notary Public, and in the past have worked for vaious attorney's doing all kinds of stuff, from wills to converyancing to litigation to criminal prosecutions. I recently discovered Gnosticism and am finding a lot of satisfaction in it's teachings. I'm getting ready to start a transcriptionists class next month, and I'm also going to start volunteering at a local hospice. I have a crazy daschshund and a odd-eyed cat, I do yoga as often as I can....oh, and I'm semi-disabled after a car accident and subsequent surgery left me with some neuropathy that will probably never go away. Oh, and I'm British by birth.
That's all I cna think of right now....apart from the red hair, that is.

Leauki

on Dec 30, 2005

Nice to meet you, Karen.

adnauseam

on Jan 25, 2006

Sometimes we just click on the wrong button. I do not wish to remain anonymous---I have too many joeuser friends to catch up with!

Moderateman

on Jan 25, 2006

gee somehow I mised this article. but here goes, I am a 6 foot 2 inch Jew with a mean streak, I live in Rio Vista ca. retired now and ill from hep c, I waas a democrat for 38 years now a republican, married to the single finest female on GODS green earth. I live in my own home, not the banks but ours, lock stock and barrel. I have 2 cats simon and buffy the moth slayer

ParaTed2k

on Jan 25, 2006

To me the names aren't as important as the people I've gotten to know in my year here at JU. The names mean so little to me that I rarely notice when someone changes their nickname. It took me awhile to realize that you and Leauki were the same person.

It's not that I don't care that there is an actual person behind the nickname. It's just that, here at JU anyway, if you want people to know who you are, you write articles and respond to others articles. Pretty soon even the slowest of us start catching on to what you're all about.

As for "anonymous users", to me there are 3 kinds. People who have blogs at other blogsites who come in to our blogs because of BlogExplosion and other promotional sites. To me, these people come as invited (directly or indirectly) guests. They usually don't venture too far away from the blog that brought them here, but once in awhile they do. Either way, I figure since I invited them to my blog (by way of my promoting it), they are almost always welcome.

Next is what I call the "Sniper". These are people who don't bother with their own blog, they merely lurk in the shadows and take pot shots in other people's blogs. Some are registered at JU and some aren't. While I don't bother blacklisting them, I really don't welcome them to my blog either. When they do take their innane potshots at me in my own blog, I often use my right to just delete them out, as I would an interloper into my own home.

The last is definitely the worst. These are people who are truly "anonymous" trolls. They don't bother registering or having a blog of their own (at any blogsite). They merely troll the waters, making completely ignorant comments and continuously change their "anonymous" name, as if the name of slime mattered. ;~D

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