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If there wasn't a real person typing something in response to you, Seth, then what would it be? A figment of your imagination? I don't need to know people's real names on the web. I got to know their real names at Robert Lang's house (for those that were there) and they got to know mine.
But here's my age (mid-50s) and here's my location--Seattle area.
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Post by DSD July 24, 2012 (22 of 44)
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When I first signed up with SA-CD.net it said moniker "Teresa" was already taken. I have since seen no posts from anyone using the moniker "Teresa" meaning it is possible I signed up before and forgot, I have a poor memory and depend on notes I save to my computer. I would go back to Teresa if it was me that signed up with that moniker.
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Post by windhoek July 24, 2012 (23 of 44)
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seth said:
When there's a real name and a location, it feels much more like I'm talking to a real person rather than a moniker floating out there in the ether of the internet.
Do you mean within the context of email? If yes, I agree because that's a private and intimate conversation. In the context of a forum thread discussion however, either is fine for me.
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I'm with Claude. I'd love the internet to be a nice, decent place with respect for privacy but of course it's an ugly place. The fact that it's near 100% indexed and instantly searchable makes me wary of posting anything under my real name. On a rare occasion I've revealed my real name on this site, as I desired to take credit for the /faq I wrote, but in general I like to be able to post views that may not align with my employer's. I do have a Facebook account and it's on my real name but I scarcely post anything. I might do so more often with an alt account -- something Mark Zuckerberg strongly discourages; like the OP he wants real identities only.
Unlike Funky Monkey I tend to use the same ID across many forums. I keep high standards of common decency but for me the pseudonimity is pretty much a condition for posting my views. In most cases it'll be under this moniker or not at all.
If you're not familiar with the risks of oversharing, have a look at http://pleaserobme.com/
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Post by DSD July 24, 2012 (26 of 44)
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The Seventh Taylor said:
If you're not familiar with the risks of oversharing, have a look at http://pleaserobme.com/
That's why I refuse to do Twitter or Facebook and after Linkedin was compromised I canceled my account.
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zeus said:
I'd dearly love to move to a "Real Names" policy (and this be a condition of posting) but don't know how to implement it. Suggestions anyone?
I don't know if anyone has already said this in this thread, but the main concern about real names on a forum is not just privacy but security. frankly, given the often quite cranky (or maybe better, crankish?) interchanges in this forum, I would be loath to disclose information allowing me to be contacted outside the forum, whethe at home or even at my work place.
As for the suggestion that an anonymous reviewer's views are worthless and you need to know the details of the real life person behind a review before you can accept his/her views, that is frankly ridiculous. You do not need to know whether I am old or young or employed in a particular trade or am retired or am single or married or live in a city or the countryside before you can weigh up the views I might express in a review. The only concern would be a reviewer who actually has an interest in the disc under review, such as someone at the label or one of the performers on the disc. Zeus should be able to police that behind the scenes.
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Post by harold July 24, 2012 (28 of 44)
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Hi all. I would have signed in as Hal but someone else spoke first - thus Harold, which is my real name even though I rarely use it. I live and still work in a surburb of Los Angeles, North Hollywood. And I enjoy the forum very much. I don't know if anyone cares what hi-fi gear I listen to but for the record, most recordings sound amazingly good here and to me, that's good enough. I think I recognize a familiar name or two from my earlier forum days at Gramophone and look forward to future conversations with any and all interested parties. Best.
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Post by seth July 24, 2012 (29 of 44)
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zeus said:
I'd dearly love to move to a "Real Names" policy (and this be a condition of posting) but don't know how to implement it. Suggestions anyone?
The only option is probably to manually approve each registration -- no doubt a major hassle.
Alternatively, like a lot of online newspapers, you could use facebook to power the forum so that everyone needs a facebook account to post (I can already hear the groans).
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Post by seth July 24, 2012 (30 of 44)
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DSD said:
That's why I refuse to do Twitter or Facebook and after Linkedin was compromised I canceled my account.
That's simply being unnecessarily paranoid.
The real risk you should be worried about is someone hacking your e-mail (which I assume you have), not your facebook and twitter. Hackers hack social media sites in an attempt to get to your e-mail.
It's pretty easy to protect yourself from that:
1) Use a password that is at least 10 characters, includes symbols, numbers, upper and lower case characters.
2) Absolutely never use the same password. Far and away the most common way that e-mails get hacked is that hackers steal the passwords/e-mails from websites with minimal security and then try to log into the e-mail accounts with those passwords.
3) Web mail services like Gmail offer an extra level of protection where if you want to log into your e-mail account from any computer other than your designated home computer, you have to type in an additional password which Gmail text messages to your cell phone (and a new password is generated each time you want to log in).
As long as you're doing 1 and 2 you're going to be very well protected. And #2 is absolutely essential for your e-mail account and any website where your credit card info may be saved, such as Amazon. Seriously, if you use the same password for your e-mail and other websites, change it right now!
You should also backup your web e-mail to a local machine. The first thing a hacker does when they break into your e-mail account is erase all of your e-mails and contacts.
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