[WikiEN-l] Daily premier anonymity

[geni]

On 3/5/06, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/5/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In a perfect world, we could have perfect anonymity in this matter
> > (actually, we wouldn't /need/ anonymity), but the world is far from
> > perfect. I'm not going to buy into the "this proposal amounts to
> > trolling" argument, except to say this: removing usernames from
> > contributions would be a troll's paradise.
>
> Predicting the future is hard. I wonder how you arrive at that
> conclusion? How is it possible to troll something that is effectively
> nothing more than a huge stack of edits? Trolls require opponents and
> if the opponents are not discernible the primary incentive to troll is
> not there. There are lots of totally anonymous (as anonymous as you
> can get on the Internet) communities and the few I have been involved
> in have not been plagued by trolls.
>

You don't need discernible opponents oponets to troll.

> Of course, no way in hell that Wikipedia will do away with the user
> account concept. It is just to deeply rooted. But thinking about it
> can give you some insight on flaws in how Wikipedia currently
> operates. For example, did you know that in some universities
> professors are not able to see the students names on exams and papers
> handed in? Why do you think that is and do you think Wikipedia users
> are in general better than university professors?
>

Because our view of a person will almost always be shaped by what they
have done on the wiki. People dislike me because of what I have done
on wikipedia. Not because of what I have done in the real world or on
other sites.

A university professor will have Baises other than those caused by
viewing the exam.

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geni