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klinefelter

Boulder climber

Bishop, CA

Aug 10, 2008 - 07:04pm PT

Here's another idea: take the leap and post as yourself. The majority of users here choose to remain anonymous, and some may have a legit reason. But this sort of anonymity tends to create the Jekyll-and-Hyde syndrome Chris is trying to address. If you chose a clever user name like 'fattrad' or 'standing strong', just sign your posts occasionally to personalize your prose and step out from behind the curtain. It's not that hard, really.

F10 Climber F11 Drinker

Trad climber

e350

Aug 10, 2008 - 08:29pm PT

James

Captain...or Skully

Big Wall climber

Yonder (in the sagebrush)

Aug 10, 2008 - 08:51pm PT

Kirk...(Hi!)

climber

I drink your milkshake!

Aug 10, 2008 - 09:03pm PT

Dean Potter

Lynne Leichtfuss

Social climber

valley center, ca

Aug 10, 2008 - 09:10pm PT

Still the same ole' me. But new revelation....when I sign lrl it doesn't mean loves red lollipops...even tho I do!!!!!!!!

r=ruth....a many generational family name.

Standing Strong

Trad climber

almost all the way home

Aug 10, 2008 - 09:45pm PT

why would i send chris mac an email when he's reading this anyways?

i'm not pushing for you to give me the green labels asap. i never said that! i was just hoping i could use the beer to barter with... i don't like most beer too much

anyways 3 years is plenty long enough to stick with a username

happiegrrrl

Trad climber

New York, NY

Aug 10, 2008 - 09:54pm PT

SS - Chris isn't necessarily reading the thread. He made a post, and if it's like in the past, that's about all the involvement he takes. He's not like us poor internet-addled addicts.

But what is the big deal about this owning your history? Everyone knows your old user name is you. If we can figure it out, you should be able to!

Standing Strong

Trad climber

almost all the way home

Aug 10, 2008 - 09:57pm PT

i don't know i just want my posts with me who currs

and i really don't wanna have to do another email address and stuff

dumb

Anastasia

climber

Not there

Aug 10, 2008 - 10:05pm PT

Dang it, I was just about to spread some love as a fifty something San Francisco man named Gaylor!
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Kidding aside, using another name is not the problem. Now hiding behind it while putting others down... I hate that.
AF

Jennie

Trad climber

Idaho Falls

Aug 10, 2008 - 10:08pm PT

Would it be feasible to ban the IP addresses of the thirty most used proxy servers on the internet?

A number of members have alternate user names or have registered under names nearly identical to other members, (to jest with their friends). But the high power defamation and threatening posts are being written by a small cadre of individuals, perhaps only two or three. For instance, several sock puppets who suddenly appeared just to threaten Jody, the individual who defamed Todd Skinner two days after his death and the bdaddy identity which exists for no other reason than to vex Dirtineye all had the same tone and syntax to their writing and are probably the same individual.

I've entered text from numerous spurious posters into an authorship detection computer program and the results point to a couple of individuals. A writer can alter his vocabulary easily, but disguising tone and syntax is difficult. It's a recognizable footprint of how one thinks.

I have no idea how many proxy servers exist. I've been told these spurious identities are probably posting through proxies to avoid matching IP addresses.

Ouch!

climber

Aug 10, 2008 - 10:48pm PT

My name is Sam and currently residing in Munich.

chez

Social climber

chicago ill

Aug 10, 2008 - 10:58pm PT

I totally agree with Chris.

Sincerely,
Bill Clinton

climbrunride

Trad climber

Durango, CO

Aug 10, 2008 - 11:12pm PT

Who is this Standing Strong dude? And why does he want to hide behind the pseudonym t*r?

Sounds fishy to me.

WandaFuca

Gym climber

San Fernando Lamas

Aug 10, 2008 - 11:20pm PT

Shouldn't it be "build respect for your user name (OT)"???

Tahoe climber

Trad climber

a dark-green forester out west

Aug 10, 2008 - 11:39pm PT

I agree CMac.

I don't like libel or slander.

But it all evens out. The ones that are respected on the forum don't do that sh#t, and people generally know who they are.
And don't take the others' posts very seriously.

Tahoe Climber

(Aaron Kutzer)

MisterE

Social climber

My Inner Nut

Aug 10, 2008 - 11:48pm PT

Nice ones Quartzflite, Yo, HK, and goddammit Anders! Thanks for the legal info, but could you keep the "ad hominem " to a minimum?

Doug Buchanan

Mountain climber

Fairbanks Alaska

Aug 11, 2008 - 01:37am PT

Absolute freedom, which exists anyway as evident by the incessant violation of laws, when said freedom is openly supported rather than denigrated, teaches individual responsibility sooner.

Further, it teaches people to sooner recognize the REASONING, or its absence, in the words and actions of others and thus oneself.

In the future, even children will marvel at the primitive humans of our times, who did not adequately understand the value of freedom, and who invented all manner of amusing contrivances to restrict freedom, and thus induce incentive to easily subvert the restrictions created by ignorant people, in both regards a waste of time better spent learning advanced knowledge.

Might you wish to write or say the following, to demonstrate your wisdom: You can slander or libel me at your whim, perhaps suggest my unmitigated stupidity, and in your words I will look for the reasoning for your conclusion. If your reasoning is verifiably accurate, then I will have learned the knowledge to no longer be stupid, and have therefore gained great value from your freedom, and thus be wise. If the reasoning is not accurate, or not offered, then your conclusion will fool only fools who are of no value to society anyway.

So to the greater than normal tolerance demonstrated by climbers, add more, to learn more sooner.

And for the unmitigated stupidity of National Park Service rangers who could not identify an inferior law contradicted by a superior law if you handed them a dictionary, the Park regulations and the US Constitution, climbers appreciate their comedy.

Or some sort of whirlygig like that.

DougBuchanan.com