I don't think I ever push a thread to start but this one has been boiling for some time.
As many know or may not know, there is a serious push by the Facebook creaters to end online anonymous posting on the web altogether. Personally I think this is a kickass way to go. It seems that every single outlet for people to voice an opinion on is littered with negative and spiteful rhetoric over EVERYTHING. And I do mean everything. No one is safe, no one is immune to the garbage and it sucks that this push has to even be a concern.
I'm not stating that people are not entitiled to an opinion, hell that's what I proudly serve for, to be able to have that freedom. What I mean is the "keyboard courage, keyboard assassins, etc..." (add your own colorful title!) people that blast things on topics they would normally not be caught in public saying, but online, portray courage, strength an malice at others they don't know personally. This also strikes at those that have harrased and taunted teens into killing themselves over crap that grown freaking adults posing as 16yr old idiots, posted about them. It's sad really and this has been an ongoing push for a few years at least.
I'd like to get some opinions on what other think. Do you think posting the real names of posters would calm the posts down, knowing they would know who it is? Invasion of privacy? Freedom to be a jackass, protected by anonymity? It would change the face of some other website boards that's for sure! I can think of one right now that if this would/will pass, can change the whole way they spew innaccurate, hateful things about Pros and everyone else in BBing.
Rant over...next!
-DH
As many know or may not know, there is a serious push by the Facebook creaters to end online anonymous posting on the web altogether. Personally I think this is a kickass way to go. It seems that every single outlet for people to voice an opinion on is littered with negative and spiteful rhetoric over EVERYTHING. And I do mean everything. No one is safe, no one is immune to the garbage and it sucks that this push has to even be a concern.
I'm not stating that people are not entitiled to an opinion, hell that's what I proudly serve for, to be able to have that freedom. What I mean is the "keyboard courage, keyboard assassins, etc..." (add your own colorful title!) people that blast things on topics they would normally not be caught in public saying, but online, portray courage, strength an malice at others they don't know personally. This also strikes at those that have harrased and taunted teens into killing themselves over crap that grown freaking adults posing as 16yr old idiots, posted about them. It's sad really and this has been an ongoing push for a few years at least.
I'd like to get some opinions on what other think. Do you think posting the real names of posters would calm the posts down, knowing they would know who it is? Invasion of privacy? Freedom to be a jackass, protected by anonymity? It would change the face of some other website boards that's for sure! I can think of one right now that if this would/will pass, can change the whole way they spew innaccurate, hateful things about Pros and everyone else in BBing.
Rant over...next!
-DH
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