Not trying to be argumentative here, but...
I am not being dishonest about who I am... Ed. But that is all I wish
to reveal for very good reasons. I think it is possible to
communicate with others without them knowing your full name, or any
part of your name. The communication is in the conversation, not in
the name you tag on at the end. As for free support requiring users
to jump through this hoop... Ok, your project your choice. But, how
about a little more slack on this, considering you have a pretty large
user base, all of whom seem to be more than willing to help test new
features, deploy OSG into their systems, labs, etc, thereby
propagating it throughout the community. I think it is a two-way
street. Just my $0.02.
Definitely Ed
Quoting Robert Osfield <[email protected]>:
Hi ??
The key is that you adopt a consistent online personal that others can
relate it. Not adopting some form of human name is crap for everybody
else who interacts with you.
At personal level I find it obnoxious that people are not always
honest about who they are, but that's me. I do realize that some may
wish to remain anonymous and sometimes there might even be actual
valid reasons for it, it doesn't make like this type of deceit, but it
does mean that I have to accept end users choice to remain anonymous.
While accepting anonymity doesn't mean a free pass to come up with
any combination of random key combinations for an online identity.
Remember you are trying to communicate with real human beings, if you
want them to help you then you have to make the effort to communicate
in a form that is something that others can relate to. If you want
free support then this is the hurdle you need to jump for mailing
lists users and forum users - it really isn't much of hurdle, if you
want anonymity then all you need to do is come up with an name for
your alter ego and stick with this.
Robert.
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Does this apply to the mailing list or just the forum? I would like to
object to this if it applies to the mailing list. I don't specify my full
name for a very good reason. The type of work I am doing is
proprietary/sensitive and don't want any questions I ask, even though I try
to ask generic enough questions, to reveal what I am doing, or how I am
doing it, and it be traceable to the company and my customer. It would not
be a good thing for anyone on my side. If someone wants to try to track me
down through my email, well, I can only do so much, with out considerable
more effort, but I do what I can.
Ed (or maybe, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Thomas, John, Freddy, or....)
Quoting Art Tevs <[email protected]>:
Hello dear forum users,
in order to establish a nice etiquette in our community, we have decided
to suspend user accounts which do not correspond to forum's
rules. The main
reason is that a lot of forum users don't have valid real names specified.
The problem in that is, that your posts are also visible by the mailing
list members and that more or less blind kind of conversation isn't
appropriate for our community. Please take a look into this
thread, written
by Robert Osfield: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?t=2498 to
see what I mean!!!
So, user accounts who's real names are either not full (by full we
understand First and Last name) or are of some cryptic nature (e.g. XMen,
3D Master, etc) will be put into moderation queue by me in the next hours.
Messages posted by moderated/suspended accounts are not visible and also
not forwarded to the mailing list, until they get approved by moderatos.
Hence you still able to post, however until you do not correct
your profile
to match the forum rules (http://forum.openscenegraph.org/rules.php) your
messages will not be visible by other members of our community.
Hence if you like to join us, you are asked to follow the netiquette
established in many years of mailing list era.
So again:
- you have to specify a valid real name in your profile. Valid real name
is of type "First Last" name, for example "John McCourkey", "Alice Smith",
etc...
- Names with more than 2 words are allowed, e.g. "Hans Peter Maier".
- If it is not appropriate to have such names in your culture or you
want to preserve some kind of anonymity, then please use a
pseudonym (which
match the both previous points!!!), however use it persistently
in all your
communications within our community.
- you can disable "Always show my realname" in your profile settings,
then your name wouldn't be visible on the forum and will also not be
indexed by Google etc when indexing the forum page! However it will still
be used in mails sent to the mailing list, so this is the same level of
anonymity as if you have used mailing list only
Thank you and sorry for such circumstances
Art
P.S. Users who recieve an email with subject "Your account on
OpenSceneGraph Forum is now moderated/suspended" are landed on the
moderation queue. So they are asked to correct their profiles!
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