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Post by hs on Oct 21, 2009 11:31:54 GMT -5
Please vote for what level of moderation you would like to see in this forum. Thank you!
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Post by anonymouse on Oct 21, 2009 12:41:00 GMT -5
"you must be logged in to vote in this poll" kinda defeats the purpose, no?  |
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Post by stickmoon on Oct 21, 2009 12:43:41 GMT -5
Logging in prevents multiple votes by the same person. So...no, it actually supports the purpose.
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Post by anono on Oct 21, 2009 13:17:28 GMT -5
True, it makes it so people can't vote twice, but doesn't it also make it likely that respondents will tend to be self-selected based on their comfort with having to login in the first place? I would suggest that the poll is problematic for this reason. Not unrelatedly, I do not wish to log in to vote. However, I would like to indicate that I think it is best to leave things the way they are. More accurate info is not worth it (no proof this would be the result anyway). This topic should just be dropped already. The poll itself borders on trolling at this point.
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Post by anonymouse on Oct 21, 2009 13:18:14 GMT -5
yes but then you are only sampling the people who have made a login name, thereby not sampling those who wish to remain more anonymous and who do not want to make a login name (like myself)
And it is feasible that there would be a different views among those who wish to remain more anonymous, which I believe would probably swing towards voting for lesser moderation.
Therefore this survey is useless.
Come on, this is a *sociology* board, right?
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Post by anono on Oct 21, 2009 13:20:25 GMT -5
This board has 3 simple guidelines. If they cannot be followed, the guidelines should be enforced. Simple.
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Post by anonymous on Oct 21, 2009 13:39:42 GMT -5
According to who? The cosmic daddy in the sky? Or is it objective morality? Are you its representative?
I didn't realize so many sociologists fetishized authority (and 'simplicity' apparently). Maybe the economist is right in a Shakespearean fool sort of way
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Post by anonymous on Oct 21, 2009 13:40:59 GMT -5
Guidelines exist for a reason.
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Post by biped on Oct 21, 2009 14:29:42 GMT -5
I don't think this forum has been rendered useless. It is a RUMOR MILL. We all know that rumors are of questionable validity. In any context, "stars" are always the topic of academic gossip, sometimes accurate, often not. There will always be people who say things some may not like in that context.
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Post by anonymouse on Oct 21, 2009 14:55:24 GMT -5
i'm not saying that it's not easy, but by requiring some users to do something before voting (e.g. register), you are going to underrepresent those users in your results.
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Post by notatroll on Oct 21, 2009 14:57:49 GMT -5
seriously, can you not figure out how to make an anonymous registered login name? no one is requiring you to use your real name, school, location, etc. to register. unless i am missing something here (like my city's ip address blaring from my posts like in the wiki) i don't see what the problem is. this rumor mill is rendered useless/stupid when any effing d-bag can come on here and masturbate his stupid antisoc hatred all over these pages every afternoon. or say they're being interviewed by places with completely opposite positions or deadlines that haven't even passed. the job mkt is stressful/futile enough this year, why add to it? not to mention how much garbage has been spewed about some of our discipline's 'stars.' i am no starf*cker, but it's simply hurtful and unnecessary. the same way the wiki attempts to keep sh*t in check by tracking IPs, this forum should at the very least require people to register so that i can't instantaneously turn myself into anonymouse or realeconomist or reald*ckfacetroll, etc. And how is requiring everyone to log in going to stop anyone from creating multiple logins? Even if you require a log in anyone can easily create anonymouse or realeconomist or reald*ckfacetroll screen names and we are right back at the start. The only way you could prevent someone from creating multiple logins would be to request activation from a institutional or paid email address. And then we are right back to the issue of anonymity. I would certainly never post again if I had to provide my real email address to register, as message board databases are notoriously easy to break into. It is easier to simply ignore the trolls. |
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Post by anonomouse on Oct 21, 2009 15:00:02 GMT -5
ok you got me to register so that I could vote against this stupid poll.
Registration requires me to reveal my email address, gender and birth date. I have no idea who the moderator of this forum is, but I would rather they not have this information. Personally I was able to use my spam email instead of all my other addresses (which ALL have my name in them), but lots of people don't have a spam email address. therefore those people, in order to maintain anonymity, would have to create a new email account to register.
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Post by anonomouse on Oct 21, 2009 15:03:49 GMT -5
oh and I love how now that I'm registered this program has gone back and changed all the posts by "anonomouse" to be mine. Which they were. But could have easily not been.
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Post by f**kingthingyface on Oct 21, 2009 18:56:46 GMT -5
Registration requires me to reveal my email address, gender and birth date. I have no idea who the moderator of this forum is, but I would rather they not have this information. Anonomouse...are you f**king kidding me? Do you really think it's difficult to set up a secondary, or tertiary, email address? Do you really think you are identifiable based on whatever (fake) gender or (fake) birth date you enter to create a user name? Give me a break. Frankly, you're more identifiable if you update the wiki, given that most of your ip address is made public. |
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Post by notatroll on Oct 21, 2009 19:07:33 GMT -5
Registration requires me to reveal my email address, gender and birth date. I have no idea who the moderator of this forum is, but I would rather they not have this information. Anonomouse...are you f**king kidding me? Do you really think it's difficult to set up a secondary, or tertiary, email address? Do you really think you are identifiable based on whatever (fake) gender or (fake) birth date you enter to create a user name? Give me a break. Frankly, you're more identifiable if you update the wiki, given that most of your ip address is made public. Which brings me back to my original point: how is requiring registration going to deter trolling and the like? The only way would be to require institutional or paid email addresses, in which case, the person above is right. |
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