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Online anonymity

  • 07-10-2013 06:18PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭


    If Boards decided to do away with usernames and instead your account on here was the same as a Facebook profile, i.e. your name, where you're from and your picture, would you keep posting?

    I'd have no problem with people knowing who I am. If they tried hard enough they could get this information anyway.

    Just wondering is anonymity a big factor in peoples registration on this website, and if so, why?

    Would you stay or would you go? 44 votes

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    lahalane wrote: »
    If Boards decided to do away with usernames and instead your account on here was the same as a Facebook profile, i.e. your name, where you're from and your picture, would you keep posting?
    No. It would fill up with self righteousness and inane babble just like Facebook.

    Working under a pseudonym allows you to voice your opinion without having to worry about some tool making it their life mission to make you pay for having an opinion that's different from them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I'd be out of here in a heartbeat.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    I would go. I haven't said anything I wouldn't want attributed to me but I also wouldn't want potential employers being able to trawl boards and find out stuff about me. I can control what access people have on Facebook, but not on here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I'd go or else create a fictional FB page.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    ScumLord wrote: »
    No. It would fill up with self righteousness and inane babble just like Facebook.

    Working under a pseudonym allows you to voice your opinion without having to worry about some tool making it their life mission to make you pay for having an opinion that's different from them.

    But Facebook is for people who are friends with each other to babble. This would still just be people who don't know each other voicing their opinions. Granted that you might realise somebody you know is posting when you originally didn't but I don't know if it would descend into chaos that easily?

    If somebody is petty enough to make you pay for your opinion then they'd probably do it with your pseudonym anyway. Unless you mean 'make you pay' in an offline method, which I naively assume would not happen.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    I'd stay but I probably wouldnt post near as much as I would with anonymity. What I would post I'd be very careful about how I phrased it too without committing to any particular position.

    This stuff is in the public domain and it will be here for a long long time linked to your name. Its not like facebook where you can keep it somewhat private and kill it all by closing the account.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    What? Some people have fictional user names in here?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Vojera wrote: »
    I would go. I haven't said anything I wouldn't want attributed to me but I also wouldn't want potential employers being able to trawl boards and find out stuff about me. I can control what access people have on Facebook, but not on here.

    Yeah i mean having an opinion should not bar you from being employed but I'm aware this is used quite allot in the interview process and in general in the job if they can get your fb details or Twitter. Why i only have one to look at FB is someone links me something. To be fair there should be some kind of privacy legislation drafted so they cant hold any of that over your head. If its an illegal thing like inciting hate fair enough but anything else no no.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    lahalane wrote: »
    If Boards decided to do away with usernames and instead your account on here was the same as a Facebook profile, i.e. your name, where you're from and your picture, would you keep posting?

    I'd have no problem with people knowing who I am. If they tried hard enough they could get this information anyway.

    Just wondering is anonymity a big factor in peoples registration on this website, and if so, why?


    .......I'm a worse bollocks IRL so it would make little difference, tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Anonymity on the internet is a myth.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭meemeemee


    Go.

    Certain posters on Boards.ie, are like stalkers !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Go. Dont want to worry about future employers and godknows who else reading this and judging me in real life over my sh1te talk on here


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Ace Attorney


    go, I dont like the whole social media thing anyway, hence not having a Facebook or Twitter, but having things that you have said on the internet under your real name and with people and potential employers being able to Google that info at their fingertips they could easily have snippits of what you said and recieve it out of context, there are too many flaws to having someting attached to your name amd it being available easily on the internet for everyone to see


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    I can understand why the place would clear out if we were only allowed use our offline identity on Boards, but I'm actually looking forward to the day when a law is made that forces us to use our offline identity online.

    It would cut down on half the dubious crap that gets posted in here carte blanche when posters have no regard for being responsible for what they post, and therefore post whatever they like without thinking about it.

    Online anonymity while it allows for a certain amount of freedom of expression, it also accommodates a hell of a lot more dickish behaviour.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    go, I dont like the whole social media thing anyway, hence not having a Facebook or Twitter, but having things that you have said on the internet under your real name and with people and potential employers being able to Google that info at their fingertips they could easily have snippits of what you said and recieve it out of context, there are too many flaws to having someting attached to your name being on the internet for everyone to see

    Yeah to some people having a different opinion, seems to be illegal to the moral police. their quick to point out blah blah and basically say you must conform


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    I can understand why the place would clear out if we were only allowed use our offline identity on Boards, but I'm actually looking forward to the day when a law is made that forces us to use our offline identity online.

    It would cut down on half the dubious crap that gets posted in here carte blanche ...

    That's just what I said to the Minister last night..! :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    What? Some people have fictional user names in here?

    Yes Mr. Happy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭urabell


    If you're not brave enough to say something then you don't have the right to call it your opinion. Same applies in real life, if you won't say something to everyone in the room then you don't deserve to say it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    urabell wrote: »
    If you're not brave enough to say something then you don't have the right to call it your opinion. Same applies in real life, if you won't say something to everyone in the room then you don't deserve to say it.


    Thats grand in principle, but not so grand in reality. If I walked into a loyalist pub and told everyone there what I thought of them, they'd probably be my last words. Its called, 'your mouth writing cheques that your arse cant cash'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    lahalane wrote: »
    But Facebook is for people who are friends with each other to babble.

    I thought we were all friends here.....

    We are right? .... Right?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    urabell wrote: »
    If you're not brave enough to say something then you don't have the right to call it your opinion. Same applies in real life, if you won't say something to everyone in the room then you don't deserve to say it.

    Twaddle. I would never say to my 92 year old grand aunt "Would ya look at the baps on her over there".
    Just like I would never say to the lads down the pub "The longer masses some times are the more satisfying ones".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Anonymity on the internet is a myth.

    Well in one sense it is. In that you can be traced and you shouldn't post anything that you wouldn't be prepared to stand over in court.

    However, at the user interface boards.ie level there is anonymity.

    I mean, you don't know who I am.


    Sincerely,

    Gerry McHale.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Yeah to some people having a different opinion, seems to be illegal to the moral police.

    I've heard of the PC Brigade but the Moral Police is new to me.

    What's their pay scale like?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    newmug wrote: »
    Thats grand in principle, but not so grand in reality. If I walked into a loyalist pub and told everyone there what I thought of them, they'd probably be my last words. Its called, 'your mouth writing cheques that your arse cant cash'.


    Indeed. Would it be that bad if you had to learn to think twice before you expressed your opinion so that you could do so in a civil fashion?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Well in one sense it is. In that you can be traced and you shouldn't post anything that you wouldn't be prepared to stand over in court.

    However, at the user interface boards.ie level there is anonymity.

    I mean, you don't know who I am.


    Sincerely,

    Gerry McHale.

    Daddy...?

    :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,123 ✭✭✭KwackerJack


    Would not work.

    You would gets the heads and howaya's going on to your Facebook page telling you that they will burn down your gaf because you did not agree with there post :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    D1stant wrote: »
    I thought we were all friends here.....

    We are right? .... Right?

    We are strangers with no real feelings towards each other for the most part...but friends? I'm afraid you won't be getting any Christmas cards from me this year... :(

    (I don't send Christmas cards...)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    I'd go, mostly because I'd have no time for the kind of people who feel they need to have that authority. It would do no harm to have the poster's country show up though. As in, if you're posting from Ireland you'll show up as "in Ireland".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭canadianwoman


    lahalane wrote: »
    If Boards decided to do away with usernames and instead your account on here was the same as a Facebook profile, i.e. your name, where you're from and your picture, would you keep posting?

    I'd have no problem with people knowing who I am. If they tried hard enough they could get this information anyway.

    Just wondering is anonymity a big factor in peoples registration on this website, and if so, why?

    I have no problem with people knowing my first name or where I am from but I would rather not put up a picture of myself.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Being anonymous doesn't bother me that much. I'm "jimgoose" on most forums these days, but I mostly blather on about motoring matters. Any opinion pieces I spew would strike those who know me in real life as fairly typical anyway. ;) In the old days, nigh on twenty years ago now, I used to post on Usenet using my real name.


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