Serious question to tbt, why is anonymous bbsn' so important to you? Help me understand
been away for a few days, felt great.
as for the question, anonymous browsing here doesnt mean a whole lot to me tbh, as i never intentioned for the posts i made(which were made to incite other posts) to be credited to me. i was interested in an experiment that was for my own personal enjoyment to see what happened. i mean, yeah there is 4chan and other anonymous sites, but within this community, which has established itself as a hotbed for intelligent, self-policing, creative, and genuinely good people. i thought this was as great as site as ever to see what happened.
now, tbh nothing happened after the first day, which i was a little surprised about. i mean this is a community and for the most part there are the core posters, with the others that read and on occasion post to voice their opinion, only to hide back in the shadows. i just thought it would be cool to see gE uncensored. if you go back and read my original request for this thread i talked about the need for people to get things off their chest. now this may seem foreign to some people, but just letting a story out, or talking about something that happened, can be very therapeutic for some people, but not all. so a thread where a community member posts on the reg, or not that often, but where they know the people here(we are a social group) could be a way for some to get a closure, or a stop, or just post whatever the eff they want.
like i said, it was a failed experiment, but the fact remains we have people here in OUR community that are going through difficult times and may just need an outlet, need a chance, or just need a voice. to belittle them to their face is a real world thing, but for them to express whatever they feel, or are worried about in a anonymous way could help people who you dont even know. now i was pissed about the anonymous browsing because i wanted to post as someone different(ip address wise) so that not everything could be traced to me, in the case of someone(other than the mods) asking. my thinking was, if the mods had different ip addresses they could say that yes indeed other people felt the same way, or were going through the same things as other people. but that didnt turn out to be possible for a long period of time, and i hope everyone who made a joke about someones post in this thread(probably mine) will think a little harder about the intent this thread was created for.