Time to throw off the masks??
- Thread starter durruti02
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hey we knew that!
Openess is fine, up to a point. But I'd rather not have an employer or prospective employer type my name into google and have the sort of stuff I post on here come up among the results, especially not in my current (fairly precarious) work situation. Of course, if you're politically active in any meaningful way, your employer is probably going to find out eventually, but why make it easy for them?
Anyway, durutti02, if you feel so strongly about it, you go first
but why would you post anything on here that is differrent ot an article you might pen or an opinion you might voice in a meeting or a letter you might write to the local rag?
p.s. i was hoping we would all hold hands and jump in together!
I know I am anonymous, but I am not involved with any political group or campaign at the moment - I don't really have "a flag to fly" as it were. There is room for both (anon and named) online, depending on what someone wants to achieve by posting, and their own personal situation.spot on
.. er .. Mr/s Float?
I don't sign articles with my real name, I don't need that kind of individual publicity. I've never felt the need to write to a local rag about anything, though again, if I were going to, I'd probably use a fake surname. As for meetings, I tend to go on the assumption that nobody in a political meeting is likely to run off to my employer and tell them what I've said, that way madness liesbut why would you post anything on here that is differrent ot an article you might pen or an opinion you might voice in a meeting or a letter you might write to the local rag?
p.s. i was hoping we would all hold hands and jump in together!
Basically, I'm not a council candidate or any other kind of politician, and I never will be. People only need to know my real name if I'm speaking to them face to face.
FridgeMagnet
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None, I'm afraid, without a really really really good reason.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
On a more general note, there's a big difference between pseudonymity and anonymity. It is an important point when it comes to data security.
If I post with a consistent name that is a pseudonym. We try to maintain that on Urban - you may not be able to track somebody down outside of the board without it, but an individual's posts are consistently under the same name. There are usually hidden details which are trusted to confirm this but not made public - IP addresses, passwords, email addresses, that sort of thing.
Anonymity means that there is no identifiable connection between posts apart from the content of the posts themselves; there are no other details that can be used to say whether one post was made by the same person as another.
If I anonymise a set of records, I destroy all possible personally-identifiable details about them. If I pseudonymise them, I encode the personally-identifiable data in such a way that they are consistent when the same, but you cannot obtain the original data from them.
If I post with a consistent name that is a pseudonym. We try to maintain that on Urban - you may not be able to track somebody down outside of the board without it, but an individual's posts are consistently under the same name. There are usually hidden details which are trusted to confirm this but not made public - IP addresses, passwords, email addresses, that sort of thing.
Anonymity means that there is no identifiable connection between posts apart from the content of the posts themselves; there are no other details that can be used to say whether one post was made by the same person as another.
If I anonymise a set of records, I destroy all possible personally-identifiable details about them. If I pseudonymise them, I encode the personally-identifiable data in such a way that they are consistent when the same, but you cannot obtain the original data from them.
is it not time to step up to the plate though mate?I don't sign articles with my real name, I don't need that kind of individual publicity. I've never felt the need to write to a local rag about anything, though again, if I were going to, I'd probably use a fake surname. As for meetings, I tend to go on the assumption that nobody in a political meeting is likely to run off to my employer and tell them what I've said, that way madness lies
Basically, I'm not a council candidate or any other kind of politician, and I never will be. People only need to know my real name if I'm speaking to them face to face.
On what? I don't see standing for council elections as particularly useful, in fact, I see it as actively counterproductive and a distraction from the real work of organising effectively within local communities. Why would anybody need to know my name, other than as something to call me face to face?
Oh no!
"This is the time for action...the time to be seen?"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x1kqQHl5q6g&feature=related
"looking good's the answer, and living by night...."
Aargh! Flashbacks....
ok forget elections but how else can you organise if you are not well known with your real name?
and that is exactly what they WANT us to do .. drive us underground where we are impotent
Obviously, if I'm trying to organise something with somebody, I will tell them my real name, but I don't see why people who've never met me and have nothing to do with me would need to know my name.
maybe. The problem is some people work in jobs where the often drunken etc exchanges on urban might jeopardise people's employment.
JHE
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The Social Workers' management team care, at least sometimes. They bully and expel people who don't toe the line.
(Reg at MI5 is undergoing retraining to keep tabs on Islamists, but it's not easy for him, poor old chap. He has enough difficulty with Trot dialect. He can't make head or tail of Islamoshite, even when most of it is in a form of English.)
this is the funnest thing i have seen all day try telling some of the posters on here that fridgemagnet ahahahahahahahahahaha sorry duruti2 but come on ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha oh god can i sit on the car bumper sticker commitee hahahahahha ' im following the revolution' hahahaha 'my other cars on standby with fertliser' sorry duruti2 you mean well but come on you have to see the funny side throw of our masks !!!!ahahahahahaha this is not that wicthes convention from rald dal hahahahahaha
