Facebook groups: anonymous posting

@divegeester said
Which is odd considering you don’t support taking responsibility for thumbs, which are themselves content of the thread.

Anyway, clearly you hadn’t thought it through.

I did think this through. As I have stated several times, thumbs are the equivalent of mumbling "hear, hear" or "rubbish" from the back benches and therefore clearly refer to content which was not anonymous, but without adding any new content.

Posting new content anonymously is different.

EDIT:

An analogy:

If a candidate puts himself up for election and offers campaign promises or a platform, I want to know who he is. Anonymous candidates are not conducive to making informed decisions. However, when it comes to election day, the ballots are secret and rightly so; my neighbors have no business knowing whether I voted for candidate x or y. I may tell them if I wish, but voter anonymity is part of what makes democracy work. Thumbs are analogous to the secret ballot, voting 'yeah' or 'nay' to someone else's content; putting out one's own content is analogous to some candidate's platform, and should not be anonymous.

@divegeester said
Irrespective of your vehement dislike and disapproval of Zuckerberg, what are you thoughts on anonymous posting generally, and specifically in the light of the recent discussions of anonymous thumbs which you are an ardent supporter of?

Thumbs are not posting, regardless of your proclivity of demonizing them because you get so many red ones. Try taking responsibility for the tripe you post non-anonymously.

@divegeester said
Which is odd considering you don’t support taking responsibility for thumbs, which are themselves content of the thread.

Anyway, clearly you hadn’t thought it through.

You don't even take responsibility for your own public abrasive posting style. How can you be taken seriously when you complain about anonymity?

@suzianne said
You don't even take responsibility for your own public abrasive posting style.

Are you opposed to "public abrasive posting styles", Suzianne? If so, can people here see that opposition demonstrated in the way you yourself post?

@moonbus said
I did think this through. As I have stated several times, thumbs are the equivalent of mumbling "hear, hear" or "rubbish" from the back benches and therefore clearly refer to content which was not anonymous, but without adding any new content.

Posting new content anonymously is different.

EDIT:

An analogy:

If a candidate puts himself up for election and offers cam ...[text shortened]... utting out one's own content is analogous to some candidate's platform, and should not be anonymous.

You already explained it perfectly well and yet you get told that you hadn't thought through, told your thinking is odd...

Don't feed the trolls said he feeding the trolls. 🤷‍♂️

@moonbus said
I did think this through.

Clearly you hadn’t or your initial pitch wouldn’t have been a moot one about in the inability for site admin to recognise abusive posting and do something about it.

@relentless-red said
You already explained it perfectly well and yet you get told that you hadn't thought through, told your thinking is odd...

Don't feed the trolls said he feeding the trolls. 🤷‍♂️

What’s even more odd is your public signalling to your group that you want to comment on the topic but simultaneously you don’t bother commenting on the topic, but instead send a horizontal barb about “trolls” aimed at your detractors as you are trapped in some mental paradigm which prevents you just posting directly to others like a normal person.

@the-gravedigger said
I am not nor have I ever been on Facebook.
Some chess clubs I play against have a FB page and broadcast games on FB.
Occasionally I will get my wife to log into hers so I can look at these.

I am on facebook and use it to facetime my family in Oz for free and keep in touch with my son in Northampton.....and to stir and muddy the waters.

@suzianne said
You don't even take responsibility for your own public abrasive posting style. How can you be taken seriously when you complain about anonymity?

As I explained to moonbus, anonymous posting doesn’t preclude moderation.

@badradger said
I am on facebook and use it to facetime my family in Oz for free and keep in touch with my son in Northampton.....and to stir and muddy the waters.

Facebook is a useful platform for communication.
Of course there will always be those who abuse it.

@moonbus said
An analogy:
If a candidate puts himself up for election and offers campaign promises or a platform, I want to know who he is. Anonymous candidates are not conducive to making informed decisions. However, when it comes to election day, the ballots are secret and rightly so; my neighbors have no business knowing whether I voted for candidate x or y. I may tell them if I wish, ...[text shortened]... utting out one's own content is analogous to some candidate's platform, and should not be anonymous.

No one posting here is campaigning for election.

@badradger said
I am on facebook and use it to facetime my family in Oz for free and keep in touch with my son in Northampton.....and to stir and muddy the waters.

This can be done very easily using WhatsApp: just have a family group or subgroups, free video calls, free phone calls, share photos etc. WhatsApp can be used on a laptop or PC too.

@divegeester said
Facebook is a useful platform for communication.
Of course there will always be those who abuse it.

I abuse it

@fmf said
This can be done very easily using WhatsApp: just have a family group or subgroups, free video calls, free phone calls, share photos etc. WhatsApp can be used on a laptop or PC too.

why bother when we all have facebook on our phones and laptops, its easy to use and convenient.

@divegeester said
No one posting here is campaigning for election.

fmf your buddy was advocating himself for Moderator at one point. What are your thoughts on that? 🙂

-VR