I Choose To Remain Anonymous
- Posted on: Apr. 10, 2007
- 23 Comments
A closed mind is a good thing to lose.
Anonymous
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
Anonymous
A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Anonymous
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Anonymous
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Anonymous
A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground.
Anonymous
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
Anonymous
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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A man is known by the company he avoids.
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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
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Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.
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By courage I repel adversity.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.
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Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
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Dare to be wise.
Anonymous
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Anonymous
I think there’s some sense of justice that the Code of Conduct came out the same week as Yom Hashoah.
ReplyBottom of the ocean on this one Loren.
ReplyI guess that means you didn’t agree Jim, sorry about that, but we don’t always have to though right?
ReplySays the man that requires an email for his comments!
ReplyTalk to wordpress, and you can always give fake info anyway Bry.
ReplyI just meant you went very “deep thoughts” on this one. Sorry, I speak in tongues sometimes.
ReplyOops! Most of my comment is missing.
Says the man that requires an email for his comments!
<- means I’m not serious! 
It doesn’t have to be valid does it?
I’m with you Loren. Even if I’m not anonymous here. But there have been times when I’ve been an ominous cow herd before.
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ReplySo? Agree or not Jim?
ReplyI wholeheartedly agree. I have had some great comments on my own blog from people that maybe went out on a limb on a topic and couldn’t face putting there name on it. It’s too bad because as your quotes reveal above, many brilliant people have been anonymous. I think O’Reilly missed the boat on this one.
ReplyHe didnt even get to the dock Jim.
ReplyThanks for perpetually keeping the blogging heads in check and also for calling Seth Godin a troll. I like most of his stuff, but I’m tired of everyone sucking up to him.
Also, I like your edge. You’ve turned me on to video blogging. Plus those modeling pics are priceless.
Replyyeah the pics make a lot of people laugh.
ReplyAs I’ve said elsewhere I don’t use my real name to post online because I don’t enjoy Google indexing every goddamn thing I write and making it available to employers, in-laws, whatever.
So am I “anonymous”? Not exactly, plenty of people know my online identity. I see it as an attempt to re-establish the idea of context as far as the Internet goes. I’ve said stuff in bars that I wouldn’t want repeated in front of my mother. On the Internet (thanks to Google and similar services), we’ve lost that ability.
The alternative to being anonymous is to never say anything, ever, that you wouldn’t want repeated to your parents or an employer. Maybe some people are OK with that. To me, that seems like an awfully boring way to live.
ReplyIt’s a blog norm to have comment posters enter an email address.
Anonymous posting is almost an oxymoron, for what posts is Anonymous, thus Nobody in Particular, an Un-named Nonentity, without feelings, without a face, drifting blankly across the digital effluvium, mouthy but cowardly, aggressive as only the clandestine can be, as outrageous as Mr. Nobody feels like being.
Anon Comments are empty, void, attached to zeroness, a bleak and relentless field of undreamable ineffability, the top sorrow, the I Do Not Exist, Therefore I Am.
ReplyFor more on code architecture, a topic I dared not broach, code being the ultimate control, see: Code 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig.
ReplyI cannot watch this video, due to a malfunction or mistake in my work environment, but all I can say, from just reading the comments, without seeing the video, or hearing it rather, I can see it, it’s my audio that’s off…
I am against anonymous commenting, though I do allow it on my blogs.
I see no reason to try to separate oneself from ones remarks. If you say it, then you sign it. Otherwise, cowardice or incivility will increase at an alarming rate. But I’m not advocating forcing everyone to drop the mask of anonymity.
Anonymous comments have no weight, sense, or purpose, no matter how witty or clever they may seem.
I don’t care to hear from guys with no guts.
ReplyI’m proud to have Google index everything I write online.
I’m sure all or almost all of my clients are Republicans– but I rake their party over the coals every chance I get.
If they can’t take a joke, fuck ‘em.
I agree that gutless anonymous trolls are afraid of us.
I also know that most of them are male and secretly wear pink panties, or rather, they wish they did, because they don’t have the guts to do that, either.
ReplyYep, well, you would feel a lot differently if you were the top hit in Google when people typed in “Vince Williams” and it turned up everything from magazine articles you’d been quoted in to private emails that people forwarded to mailing lists. It’s annoying, take my word for it. If you dig enough, there’s something in there to offend everybody.
I use my real name for work and for corresponding to people I know personally, that’s it.
ReplyNineteenth!
ReplyTo each his own. It takes all kind of folks, including anonymous posters, to make the world swirl down the proverbial toilet.
Oy vay.
ReplyCongratulations Loren on the cartoon featuring you, on BLaugh, the Blogger Laugh a Day page or whatever it is.
But what is up with the AskLorenFeldman domain being available?
Replyhttp://blaugh.com/2007/04/11/how-to-get-bloggers-to-talk-about-you-2/
ReplyWell said. This whole thing about banning ACs is complete and total scare mongering, media whoring nonsense.
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