Quote from: Spoetnik on November 08, 2015, 01:24:20 PM

Is there any examples in real life where being anonymous has a benefit ?
How about negatives ?

You guys line up to talk a lot of shit LOL

Would you go to eBay and buy stuff from an anon user ?
How about doing business with your bank in an alley as the bank teller wears a ski mask ?

You guys here have for years claimed that being able to hide like a coward is needed to make Altcoins.
Then why the trust systems ?
How many coins claim to have *verified developers ?
Hell how about this forums trust rating system ?

The Anonymity game is simply an advantage used for exploitation.
I can't even fathom how fucked up this scene would be if theymos released IP logs etc.
(or if a hacker did)

If the site owners here posted proof of all coins posted by what what users.
I think some coins would have been called into question before they could even get off the ground.

Take Doge coin for example.. who believes the dev(s) made 1 coin ?
I would bet they made many before Doge was launched.
If we always know who is doing what their loooooooooooooooong
shitty track records they hide here always would stop them cold in their tracks.

Instead what we have here is another 0 post count noob posting yet another coin ANN topic.

You guys claim you NEED to do that.

and i claim you do it so investors will not know you made a 100 other coins.
if they did you would be up shit creek.

You people are full of shit /.
Quit being little cowards and own up to your dumb scammy fucking bullshit.

edit:
all the stock market traders would be doing this stuff if you guys quit with the anon crap.

Now I see the nature of the dysfunction.

The internet is full of people you otherwise wouldn't be likely to talk to irl for two reasons. One is obvious geographical/physical limitation like Graham above. The other being not their chosen communication method.

For many, there's no point in even starting a conversation without assistance or reason irl. Like people are socially awkward and wouldn't even strike up a conversation on the street, or some other physical location with people.

The internet basically lets people walk around with giant billboards so that these people who you'd otherwise never hear from actually share a thought or two with the world.

You become part of their safe space, when you walk around with this billboard.

They get mad when you take it away, and its not that you're depriving them of something they're entitled to, its that you're making them seriously consider the very real scenario where they can't reply logically because they don't know how to speak to someone they don't know.

I'm sorry, but that's just not the way I see conversation on the internet. Sure that follows, after an email or key exchange. But up until that point were just a bunch of words looking to be singled out imo.

You're entitled only to the opinion that I'm willing to share, but not my post history.

Sure you can stalk me, figure out who I am. But I won't enable a stranger to do that too much .. In the same way I'd keep walking if people were to treat me the same way on the street. I promise you I'm not even interesting, nor do I think I am, nor should that be hard to figure out. If anything you should be happy I broke up two years of posting into logical chunks.

Asking is much less time consuming than hours of reading, but I guess that's just an opinion nobody feels they have the time for. Gotta get straight to the arguing anyways.

Also I do chuckle a little every time you bring up that mod recommendation about one liner profiles.

That one really gets you.

A viewpoint for you: So you and your buddies are having a loud conversation in Tim hortons about your new prime minister and how you can't wait for him to pass the tpp because its the current year. A dick American happens to overhear you and, clearly offended by your irrational retorts about your fearless leader, he mutters the word 'cuck' under his breath. Maybe one or two of you hear the obscenity and carry on like its a normal day. To you, he's always just gonna be some asshole tourist, but he's got a name and life you're never gonna know.

The mods recommendation is to be that guy every once in a while.

Not for scamming, illegality, raping, murdering, pillaging, doxing, or otherwise being illegitimate. Its a continuation of something that happens every day outside of the internet. Obviously those are a part of it, not that i think those are swell but I'm not gonna give up an inch of my ability so you can feel more secure.