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Jan. 4th, 2009 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay, sorry everyone who's still over on LJ, but I'm switching the journal to commenting by registered (IJ) users only. I hope it will be a temporary thing, but I'm getting a small infestation of anonymice, and they're annoying the living daylights out of me. I refuse to give time or space to people who won't even be bothered to give a name when they try to disagree with me, and cower behind their lack of a return address to boot.
*sniffs*
*sniffs*
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Date: 2009-01-04 02:03 pm (UTC)But hey, only a few days ago a really intelligent anonymouse requested membership in a closed community. First I thought WTF? and then I couldn't stop laughing. And changed the comm to registered users only, too.
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Date: 2009-01-04 02:13 pm (UTC)And, yeah, I'm really not a fan of anonymity when it comes to debate. It's just rank cowardice.
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Date: 2009-01-04 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-05 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-05 08:27 pm (UTC)And if there are no handles, then all you have is a lot of people throwing opinions at the wall and no possibility of dialogue at all, which, in my observation, tends to mean zero motivation to try to reach any consensus or synthesis of views. The opinions may all be quite honest, but they will also be extremely isolated, and that isn't a whole lot more useful (for producing new ideas and insights) than talking to oneself.
Someone who comes onto a journal and leaves an anonymous comment which, perforce, means any response to their comment will only reach them if they take the trouble to check back again... that's what I call cowardice. And unsigned anonymous comment even moreso. We're on a pretty level playing field, here; no one has any status to fall back on except whatever their record of text-action has garnered for them. To disavow a given text-action (our only identity online) says to me that the person who made it doesn't have the guts to stand by it or even bear any response to it from a peer in this context. I have zero respect for that. That's not an attempt at debate. It's an active denial of debate, and it pisses me off.
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Date: 2009-01-05 08:38 pm (UTC)