Because as I mentioned, there isn't a continuum.

I'd been meaning to reply noting that you appear to have a black-and-white mindset problem on this issue. Much easier when you just admit it. (:

...integrity of private data will be maintained...

And I wanted to steer away from "anonymity" and toward private data, so I'm glad I won't have a fight there either.

So are you concerned that a couple of gods might connect your non-anonymous monk name with some nodes that you posted anonymously and therefore you wish to no longer use the site? If so, then I'd appreciate some insight into why that is so strong a concern for you. If not, I'd appreciate some insight into the more extreme problem you are projecting from this incident.

I note you side-stepped the attempts to get you to be concrete in your concerns.

If you stated that you understand and agree with my position and consider anonymity to be inviolate except in extreme circumstances, and all the powers that be agreed to abide by such a policy, I would have no problem trusting in that policy (that had essentially been my tacit understanding all along).

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If, on the other hand, you stated that you still felt that anonymity is something you or other gods are free to breach at your discretion and judgement on a case-by-case basis, then yes, I would regrettably cease participation.

The only difference between the two proposals is the word "extreme". I'm pretty sure that the gods around here almost never have situations that they would call "extreme". They do try to administer the site even when there isn't currently an "extreme" problem to be fixed. In the course of administering the site, they will run into private data. They may even run into private data because they went looking for it in order to feed it into a further step in the process of administering the site (automating that step is nice, but administrative automation isn't the highest priority from what I've heard).

So, if you persist in considering this a black-and-white issue and that you won't participate in sites on the 'black' side, then you need to unplug your modem because nearly every web site you might visit is logging your IP address and I doubt any of them have rules that prevent administrators from glancing at your IP address in the log without the excuse of an "extreme" situation. And if private data is either perfectly inviolate ('white') or isn't ('black'), then all of those sites are 'black'.

- t        

In reply to Re^11: Increased number of downvotes at the Monastery? (grey) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Increased number of downvotes at the Monastery? by Anonymous Monk

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