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Blog Entry# 4205675
Posted: Jan 23 2019 (20:11)

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Jan 23 2019 (20:11)  
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This is an advance notice of a small enhancement to the Forum. Within a couple of days, we shall introduce "anonymous posting" for Blogs and Trips. With "anonymous posting", members will still be required to login to your account and abide by all Forum guidelines, but your name will be hidden in that particular blog. Especially, you will have the ability to post Trips without revealing your ID. Your actual ID will be known ONLY to the system.
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There will be a "Reveal/Hide" link next to your blogs. You may click it
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at any time to reveal or hide your name from any blog.
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This way, you will have freedom to express your opinion without going through the trouble of multiple IDs. As always, if any mischief/abuse is detected, action will be taken against the actual ID.
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Thanks.

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Jan 31 2019 (05:27)
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The initiative is welcome but there has to be some incentive to discourage rampant trolling of the Timeline Infrastructure. Anonymous blogging is cool but for obvious reasons, no TL updates, claims, counter-arguments against TL Updates, and refutal against updated information should be entertained from anonymous members IMHO. After the approach of decentralized management that IRI undertook a few years ago, the whole functioning of this platform works on an approximate estimation of trust pertaining to every post, every update and ever member. A good estimate of this comes from the age (age on IRI) and activity of the member.
Now today if a (non-anonymous) member makes a TL Update, what merit does an anonymous member hold to question it? At least
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with respect to site-edits, I propose zero attention to be given out to counter-arguments by anonymous members. Comments and criticism welcome.

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Jan 31 2019 (05:34)
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Re# 4205675-10               Past Edits
Site edits/TLs CANNOT be made by anonymous. Anonymous is ONLY for Blogging, Spotting & Trips. As for abuse, there are actual members behind anonymous posts - who are equally subject to GN/SW, if they violate Forum Guidelines or are seen to be trolling.
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"Anonymous" post members will be especially careful, since if they receive a valid SW, they will have to respond to clear it up. And there is no "anonymous" option for GN/SW replies - the members name will be known.
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On the whole, it is expected to be an option for long-time members who may want to express a certain opinion/argument that they are unwilling to associate with their original ID. Also, with the introduction of this feature, we shall be able to sternly clear away duplicate IDs.
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Jan 31 2019 (05:39)
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I understand. But let's just look at this example. /blog/post/4212489
A member made a TLU. A monitor stamped it. An "anonymous" member came forward questioning the validity of the TLU. And a monitor sided with them. Doesn't look fair, does it? If anonymous members start getting involved in TLU conflicts, it'll be difficult to ascertain whom to side with. That's the point I'm trying to make.
They can't make TLUs. They can still question the existing ones, which is as good as proposing to make a new one. The question is, do
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we pay attention to such cross-questioning?

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Jan 31 2019 (05:48)
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Thanks. Some enhancements will be made so that the feature is used only for genuine reasons, and not for trolling.
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1. Anonymous members will be offered a temporary unique name within a blog, so that they don't reply to themselves, and pretend it is 2 members.
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If a members is anonymous in a blog, he/she will not be allowed to reply with his real ID, within the same blog.
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Jan 31 2019 (05:53)
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That solves half the problem. Let us not have anonymous blogging at all on TLU and PNR posts. These are matters of site credibility and accountability is of paramount importance. With regular blogs, we can have the flexibility to blog anonymously.
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