I think that even making guesses about someone’s identity on an anonymous account is in very poor taste and actively discourages participation by people who are attempting to use anonymity as a tool to, “share [their] mind authentically”. I consider that sort of thing doxing similar to doxing because it takes actions on identity outside of the anonymous person’s terms. These days I’m generally against anything that has the potential to decrease activity on LW. (And even if Clarity is a generally ridiculous poster, he does foster discussions on the site at the very least.)
I think it’s a bad idea to have the same person have multiple prolific accounts here. I think calling what I am doing “doxxing” is a fnord. “Fnord” is also a fnord.
I think its important to evaluate the impact of your suspicion being wrong. Calling Gleb Clarity is practically slander. And as I’ve said before my name is mentioned several times in my post history: Carlos.
More ethically questionable is that I started a discussion on the ethics of voluntary identification any my anxiety around the level of association and attention I bring to stress my anxiety here and was ‘outed’ albeit frivolously in this way
No. It would have been bad if you’d been wrong. But you had reason to be confident, and you were right.
Possibly it would have been better to message Nancy privately. But she’s busy, and in the time between “Eugine shows up” and “Eugine gets banned”, I prefer for the rest of us to know he’s here.
Even if Eugine was tied to a meatspace identity, he’s not allowed to be here. He’s still not allowed to be here if he doesn’t admit that it’s him.
I think that even making guesses about someone’s identity on an anonymous account is in very poor taste and actively discourages participation by people who are attempting to use anonymity as a tool to, “share [their] mind authentically”. I consider that sort of thing
doxingsimilar to doxing because it takes actions on identity outside of the anonymous person’s terms. These days I’m generally against anything that has the potential to decrease activity on LW. (And even if Clarity is a generally ridiculous poster, he does foster discussions on the site at the very least.)I think it’s a bad idea to have the same person have multiple prolific accounts here. I think calling what I am doing “doxxing” is a fnord. “Fnord” is also a fnord.
I think its important to evaluate the impact of your suspicion being wrong. Calling Gleb Clarity is practically slander. And as I’ve said before my name is mentioned several times in my post history: Carlos.
More ethically questionable is that I started a discussion on the ethics of voluntary identification any my anxiety around the level of association and attention I bring to stress my anxiety here and was ‘outed’ albeit frivolously in this way
I apologize if I caused you any distress, that was not my intention.
Why don’t you both guys edit the existing comments and replace the other person’s name with “xxxxxxxx”?
If?
Should I feel bad about this? Granted, neither of those accounts is linked to a meatspace identity, but...
No. It would have been bad if you’d been wrong. But you had reason to be confident, and you were right.
Possibly it would have been better to message Nancy privately. But she’s busy, and in the time between “Eugine shows up” and “Eugine gets banned”, I prefer for the rest of us to know he’s here.
Even if Eugine was tied to a meatspace identity, he’s not allowed to be here. He’s still not allowed to be here if he doesn’t admit that it’s him.
Thanks. Another commenter suggested the same in a PM. I’m going to do that the next time I spot a possible new Eugine Nier account.
How am I ridiculous?
Not all the time. In fact, you display an admirably deep degree of introspection.
BUT there’s this.
And this.
And this.
And whatever this is.
And for the love of Zeus, this,