Can Values Be Assigned to Emotive Assertions?

At least the length and loudness of the wailing can be quantified!

Doesn't this get back to the fact that without being able to differentiate 'Anonymous Posters' from one another any attempt to track or quantify users who post anonymously is doomed to fail.

Does it really matter in the end? Don't we just judge the content of Anonymous Poster's as we would registered members - by the content, and self regulate with intelligent counter posts and 'off-topic' votes?

News just In

Hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

_{(& no, I didn't do it)}

Man I wasted my best stuff on the wrong thread

I'll take a crack at it

AP=5%

GA/OT voting = 70% [it's all anonymous]

TBMB= -33.3333% [a negative # since most of us aren't in middle school]

Complaining about valid observations other members make about whatever lame proclamations you just made = 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999%

Threatening legal action against fictitious user persona's = ∞

"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery." Charles Caleb Colton

I'll throw in on this. I have said before I don't quite get the members who PA. There are the occasional reasonable reasons (professional conflict, infringement...) that I will hear, but other than that I just cannot understand the purpose.

But, I likewise cannot understand cowardice.

Maybe, like displaying the total post count, display the number of AP's a member has made. (No, that is not really going to encourage or discourage anything). Maybe only allow four AP's per week? Maybe we all act like adults instead of petulant children who have not gotten their dessert?

GA.

Yeah when I stopped rolling on the floor I did feel flattered - very short list of folk lateral thinking enough to come up with that. Nice to think that class of mind is aboard.

Interesting points. Perhaps a list of "whys each way" for AP, would be useful. I've seen quite a few on another threads (somewhere ), I'll see if I can compile something. Or maybe folk will throw in a few, or list, of theirs in? Perhaps with a '% coward' rating on each.

On the AP numbers side - I'm reasonably certain, AP's are deducted from the members activity allowance, so it's not as if they are unlimited as they seemed to be in unregistered guest days.

Perhaps a list of "whys each way" for AP, would be useful

professional reasons

personally I've been here for quite a while, so occasionally I may want to make a point that is quite a bit outside my usual modes or even in direct opposition to one of my own points

it's fun, as AP it is possible to play the trickster, members will react in unpredictable & entertaining ways, to AP

in our community AP's are many times considered as "Them". The presence of them can be a diversion, a focal point for those with weak arguments

This thread seems to be just one more "gang up on someone or something I don't like". I don't mind someone posting AP, it allows the possibility that they can say something that their existing relationships won't allow them to say. The AP marking makes it easy for those who don't approve to ignore it. I find it difficult to AP (never done it before), bt I'll give it a try- see, I've already mistyped.

I had to edit to find the AP- it may be cowardly, but it is more work.