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How often do registered SoylentNews users post as Anonymous Coward?
| 37% | 83 votes |
| 23% | 52 votes |
| 12% | 27 votes |
| 6% | 14 votes |
| 9% | 21 votes |
| 11% | 26 votes |
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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came up and bit him on his Internet."
-- Ross M. Greenberg
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Hartree on Monday March 23 2015, @10:03PM
Sorry guys, but I can only tell you about how often I do. I flunked mind reading twice and don't have access to any logs that have IP numbers.
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Tuesday March 24 2015, @12:36PM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @12:39PM
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 28 2015, @12:15PM
Given the list of options, it's obvious that the values are to be rounded to a full multiple of 25%. So "0%" actually means "less than 12.5%" and "100%" means "more than 87.5%".
If the options were taken at exact value, it's practically guaranteed that none of the options fits. To start with, the 50% option being exactly true requires that the number of posts is even, therefore every second post it is guaranteed not to hold, and the 25% and 75% options can only hold if the number of posts is a multiple of four, that is, only once in four posts it is possible that one of them holds exactly.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Tuesday March 24 2015, @01:03PM
Or you could assume the wording was wrong, and it obviously meant to be "How often you registered SN user post as AC?"
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday March 26 2015, @10:45PM
DIDN'T VOTE - NOT ENOUGH Precision.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Thursday March 26 2015, @06:06AM
You are modded +5 insightful, yet you failed to appreciate why I worded it the way I did.
It would have been rude to ask a registered user how often they post anonymously; I mean go dox thyself. By framing the question around what others do, I figured that I might get an accurate answer.
After all: The only direct evidence people have to base their answer is their own posting behavior.
subicular junctures
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Thursday March 26 2015, @04:13PM
You failed to appreciate that I was making a joke. The first mod point was funny, which was what I was intending.
As to the other two mod points, I not only flunked mind reading, but also telepathic suggestion. I promise I'll try harder to beam my intention into the minds of others, but no guarantees. ;)
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Thursday March 26 2015, @05:23PM
Touche
subicular junctures
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 28 2015, @09:03PM
FTFY
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Sunday March 29 2015, @11:57AM
Not sure how to get that character
subicular junctures
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 29 2015, @12:15PM
I guess that depends on your operating system and keyboard layout. For example, on a French keyboard you generally have a key for it. On a standard German "dead-keys" keyboard, you'd use the key sequence [´] [e]. On any Unix/Linux keyboard with Compose key, use [Compose] [´] [e]. If you have a way to enter Unicode characters directly by code number, the character is U+00E9 (decimal code 233; probably on Windows you could enter it by holding Alt and typing on the numeric keypad [0] [2] [3] [3], but I can't check because I don't have any Windows). When all else fails, you can go to the character table, seek for that character, and then copy/paste it.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2015, @10:09PM
Only post AC when I moderated, but still want to contribute to the dialog . . .
(Score: 5, Informative) by Marand on Tuesday March 24 2015, @09:21AM
Posting doesn't undo moderation here, because the devs are actually making improvements to the code, unlike /. That used to be my reason too, but they changed it a while back.
You can even mod after posting if you wish.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2015, @10:35PM
...with my karma always at zero, I don't feel at all "mighty".
-- gewg_
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @01:49AM
actually, I like to have sex with farm animals
--gewg_
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @02:37AM
Me too, but not just farm animals. :)
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday March 24 2015, @01:52PM
Like the taste of wild game, huh?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @05:44PM
I do, but haven't had a chance for an intimate moment with any wild game. I was referring to dogs, but they can be farm animals in some contexts.
I think deer would be fun. Maybe even get exotic and go for elk or caribou. All dependent on willing participation of course.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @03:13AM
I've wondered for some time how long it would take the trolls to start pretending to be me on a regular basis.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @03:27AM
gewg_ hasn't wondered about that for a while. [soylentnews.org]
A long while. [soylentnews.org]
-- gewg_
(Score: 3, Funny) by RobotMonster on Tuesday March 24 2015, @06:54AM
Buy a free account you cheap ****!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @08:38AM
I've mentioned several times before that I have no interest in signups, cookies, karma, or any of that.
Someone with an aberrant sense of right and wrong has screwed that pooch anyway. [soylentnews.org]
-- gewg_
(Score: 5, Informative) by RobotMonster on Tuesday March 24 2015, @09:13AM
But it would make it so much easier for us to stalk you!
I generally like your posts. If you used an account, I could 'friend' you so that your posts would turn up with an extra +1 or +2 for me, making it more likely I'd see them. I'd also be able to check your user page for a list of your recent posts and article submissions, if I felt in need of some extra gewg_. Creating an account and signing in with it isn't really that much of a hassle -- I don't even know what my Soylent password is. I have tools for that.
It's pretty shitty (though not unexpected) that somebody stole your nick; if there was some way the admins could know they were communicating with the real gewg_, it'd be nice to get you control of that account (even if you don't use it).
As that doesn't seem likely, I'd like to see that account closed down so that nobody can access it.
You make a huge contribution to Soylent News, and I'm glad you are here regardless of how you choose to post.
How you post, is of course, entirely your choice, and I'll say no more on the matter!
(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 24 2015, @01:37PM
Yeah, pretty sure we've offered to turn the account over to him. Or at least discussed it in our uber-secret channel where we plot what to do with all the money we'll get for selling out to Dice, I forget.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by DECbot on Tuesday March 24 2015, @04:11PM
Why limit yourself to selling out to Dice?
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2015, @06:34AM
http://www.bash.org/?top [bash.org]
I am spartacus
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Thursday March 26 2015, @06:12AM
I admit that I am not _gewg, but only because I think _gewg is a cool person and wanted to tease him/her/fused.
subicular junctures
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2015, @10:08AM
buswolley is the submitter who suggested the poll.
From the queue [soylentnews.org]
wanted to tease him
Hey, I get to be a celebrity for a few days?
That's OK by me.
I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille. 8-)
-- gewg_
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @03:23AM
Well, I am not gewg_, so there.
gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @12:15PM
MOO!!!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 29 2015, @07:39AM
Well - technically, the farmer's daughter is an animal - so, yeah, me too.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Friday March 27 2015, @01:55AM
Maybe there should always be a --gewg_ option in the polls -- or a poll on that issue itself:
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 31 2015, @10:49AM
How many of you actually are?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Touché) by tynin on Monday March 23 2015, @10:38PM
I only post Anon when I don't want to self incriminate. I've put enough out there to figure out enough about who I am and where I might work, that sometimes its best to avoid leaving too many clues. They rest of the time, I am the mighty _gewg (OK, I'm not, but I love the I am Sparticus feel to it).
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 24 2015, @03:24PM
But apart from that, I'm prepared to stick the pseudonym I've been using online for over 20 years, and which is more than enough to identify my real identity, to all the crap that I post. That's who I am, deal with it!
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Troll) by archfeld on Tuesday March 24 2015, @12:36AM
If you can't say it with your name attached then it is not worth saying. It is always more fun to talk shit about someone to their face than behind their back.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 3, Funny) by RobotMonster on Tuesday March 24 2015, @06:56AM
Archfeld is your full real name? Cool!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @07:40AM
Either GP is up there with Madonna, Bono and McLovin or then just proving his/her point!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 24 2015, @03:03PM
His name makes me think he has his pinky up to the side of his mouth and he is petting a kitten.
And i'm sure Rule 34 applies. :)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Pseudonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @07:16AM
If you aren't afraid of saying it, it's probably not worth saying at all. And swearing at people isn't the only thing anonymity and freedom of speech is used for.
The right to privacy is a human right. [wikipedia.org] The right to anonymity is simply the right to privacy applied to freedom of speech. [eff.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2015, @07:28AM
Then make an account with your full real name and address. Just because you are afraid of something does not mean you should not say anything.
I am a security guy, aside from principles I am a prime spear phishing target. No way am I going to risk giving anyone any information about me, even something as simple as my preferred sentence structure can be valuable. I know first hand just how clever people can leverage tiny snippets of someone's life into incredible disasters.
(Score: 1) by Pseudonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2015, @02:35PM
I think I'll pass. There's literally no reason to put your own personal information out there for the world to see.
Neither am I.
-I think you either misinterpreted my reply and thought I was against preserving anonymity on the Internet or replied to the wrong post.
As a long time user of anonymous image boards I can assure you I am not against anonymity at all.
I've seen first hand just how crafty people can be trying to figure out someone's personal information.
Did you know Skype embeds the account name in the video call screenshots when you use Skype's built-in screenshotting tool?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 29 2015, @04:58PM
If you are a security guy, you should know well how to get a throw-away email address and use that to create an account on SoylentNews (over TOR if you are extra-paranoid). Note that apart from a (freely chosen) user name and an email address (which you don't need to show publicly), you are not forced to give any information.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @08:33AM
If you can't say it with your name attached then it is not worth saying.
So I guess no German person should have ever said "We shouldn't prosecute the Jews".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @01:25PM
Hey, you said it, not me.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Belmakor on Tuesday March 24 2015, @02:46PM
I always post logged in, but then I am more a lurker than a poster.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday March 31 2015, @03:05AM
There are plenty of articles that are nothing but opinion pieces. Feel free to keyboard vomit at will! Not commenting on a technical article is pretty normal. Not everyone can participate in an argument about gravitational time dilation in communication satellites. But those are super fun to lurk on.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 1) by Belmakor on Wednesday April 01 2015, @04:13PM
My main problem is that I don't want to miss reading interesting articles, but I don't currently have time to read them all! So I am about 3 weeks behind in the archives. It probably doesn't make much sense to post to articles more than a week old ... not to mention at that time most of what can be said has been said.
Need to either find more time, or find fewer interesting topics to read!
(Score: 3, Funny) by GlennC on Tuesday March 24 2015, @03:55PM
Is this an invitation to hack into your Web and/or DB servers?
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @06:50PM
...because somehow I get regularly logged out. I assume this has something to do with the fact that we have two outgoing IP addresses, that get used in load-sharing. So if I can't be bothered to log in, it goes up as AC...
(Score: 5, Informative) by Marand on Thursday March 26 2015, @01:42AM
Default is to invalidate login cookies on subnet change, so that may be why. In the password section of your account preferences you can change that, though. It's something I need to change too, because it gets annoying to relog all the time when using my tablet to read the site from different locations.
It's probably not the best setting to choose as default, due to the ubiquity of mobile browsing now.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday March 29 2015, @12:17PM
What's a subnet? When was the last time you saw a genuine /24 that wasn't part of a supernet or subnet? Most ISPs will assign a dhcp address from >/24, most companies will have /24.
Please don't tell me they're using class a/b/c from the pre CIDR times!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by NCommander on Sunday March 29 2015, @05:53PM
Unfortunately, yes. Slash has some special IP handling we inhertiated and to change it would require a massive root channel which ATM isn't doable.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by elf on Thursday March 26 2015, @06:51AM
If you ignore the actual word poll on this page, remove all the results of the poll, and insert the words "you think" in to the middle of the questio,n we are finally left with a nice sensible discussion page!
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday March 28 2015, @02:05AM
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty gewg_
(Score: 2, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 29 2015, @07:34AM
On a rare occasion I read some AC comment, and feel like trolling him, so I'll post as AC. That's about it. Mostly, I figure that if my thoughts are worth putting into print for people to read, then I'll take full credit for those thoughts.