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A comment or problem or question that might be worth opening up for general discussion is this:

Is this discussion board set up in such a way that a person can sign up multiple times with multiple personae or usernames? So that, for example, one person could start a thread and begin a conversation with himself or herself and no one joining in would know it but the person doing it? Play both good cop and bad cop in an open discussion with others, or both ends against the middle? If so, is that a good thing or a bad thing or just indifferent? Should this board be configured so it's one username to a customer?

I have mixed feelings about these questions. On one level, if it floats somebody's boat to be able to play various roles on a discussion board (which is not a role-playing game), well, gosh, they should have the right to do so, shouldn't they? But on another level, granting that everyone's working from behind some kind of mask anyway, and given that this isn't a role-playing game per se, I'd kind of like knowing that there's only one mask per person, that things are fairly straightforward and that some level of directness can be relied upon in our exchanges.

I wonder what other people think about these issues. And Tiger68, what is the functionality of the board in this regard?

Ron Drummond

http://www.littlebig25.com

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Originally posted by Ron Drummond:
A comment or problem or question that might be worth opening up for general discussion is this:

Is this discussion board set up in such a way that a person can sign up multiple times with multiple personae or usernames?

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Having quite a bit of experience with other fora, I can tell you it is nearly impossible to stop people from having multiple usernames should they choose to. E-Mail addresses are a dime a dozen. So are IP addresses. So really, there is no real sure fire way to stop someone from having multiple accounts. The internet sites that have a modicum of control over multiple personalities are the ones that require some type of verified identification such as a credit card. Paypal is one example. Even then, resourceful people find a way to circumvent the built in safeguards. I'll be damned if I'm going to pony up my credit card for a site such as this one. So anyways, what would you suggest?

Nox

I find it almost impossible to be able to force the one-id-per-person-please rule

It is already proven that there this is almost impossible and what I hope is that there will be no such need in this board! No flames are needed, discussions are civilised and I hope that there will be no need even for closing of threads!

Since a lot of new people will arrive and register in W:G:B I believe that everyone of us should be "responsible" to familiarize the new ones to the ethics of the board...

It is early now but I am sure that in the near future the boards will find their own style affected by our posts...hopefully a cyberpunk, Gibsonian style!



Manogr...

Thanks to Nox and Manogr for their sensible replies. I'm still a bit of a neophyte here, and once the near impossibility of regulating multiple personae was pointed out, it seemed obvious. I just wish I'd thought it through a little further.

As for how to handle the possibility of multiple personae, I intend to follow the advice a friend of mine offered who's much more knowledgeable about such things than I:

"Best way to deal with it is to assume that each name is a separate, real person, which is probably as valid on the Web as it is in most social situations. Don't let people yank your chain, that's all. Address ideas, ignore flames."

I, too, am delighted by the civility and intelligence and sheer style that fills this discussion page. Long may it wave!

Ron Drummond

http://www.oz.net/~jhawk/wtc/gardensteps/cityscape.html

i dont know which ones. but plenty of people have made some good suggestions.
random thoughts is out of control man.

Why can I jump to a page in a thread in this section of the board, but not on the Random Thoughts section?

Two Suggestions:

I think we can merge the two PR threads about now, or make 'without spoilers' a subcatagory

Can we create catagories for the major works? One for the Sprawl series, one for Virtual Light, one for the WG odds and ends? It's hard to track a conversation about some specific bewildering aspect of Count Zero accross multiple threads.

Love Ya,
jandzero

++jandzero.

US will commodify your discontent, sell it back to you on DVD.

but I wish we had a chatroom.

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Originally posted by tigerstripes:
but I wish we had a chatroom.

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hey TS, if ya want. my msn messenger ID is wraithkit (you can look up my eddress of course)
what if we vote for a messenger prog? I'll poll it. 'kay? my best friend just went to where u r. I miss him.

deny everything

I would say we use IRC

Accessible from anywhere, at anytime.
Does not require registration.

Perfectly fine by me.
All we need is to choose a server.

But I'm not alone, and I know some people don't like IRC...
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ArkanGL

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Originally posted by ArkanGL:
I would say we use IRC

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We discussed this already in another thread.

The room still exists, 'though there is no longer an opbot named Emma in it....

Yelena

but could not find a chatroom called #Gibson. Perhaps it's been discontinued?

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Originally posted by tigerstripes:
but could not find a chatroom called #Gibson. Perhaps it's been discontinued?

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Funny, it worked for me...I just typed /join #gibson, though, so I probably spawned a new room. Likely there wasn't enough interest in it for the server IRCops to keep the channel static. Which is a shame.

Yelena

… with a final push the hatch gave and Blakkandekka stumbled into the control room. The eerie quiet was broken only by the hailstone patter of stray consonants and digits bouncing off of the board’s carapace. The dry husk of the creature that had once been Tiger68 lay strapped to the captain’s station, the feline claws at the end of one carbon scarred limb still inserted into the sockets at the gnarled end of the forum creation tool.

Blakkandekka's fingers gripped the now lifeless console, his eyes locked to the viewscreen as the board, cresting it’s parabola, began the slow plummet into the abyss…

[This message was edited by Blakkandekka on June 24, 2003 at 03:36 PM.]

That's it. This last week, just after clicking the Post Now button, I have received six times a "page not found" error, with the message being lost in the ether.

Has anyone else had the same problem?

José

Let me look into this- I have not heard the same info from others.

I get that. All I do is hit the Back button on my browser. It goes back to the Post Reply screen, I push the button again. repeat as necessary. It goes through eventually. I think it's just a matter of server lag, meself.

If I hit back, I get a blank reply space.

Now I just copy all my replies and if I get the blank reply I just paste and post again.

José