I mostly lurk and don't publish messages to the discuss feature. But BoingBoing is home page and I would be really bummed if this moo cow A-Hole ruined it for those of us who read your site regularly.

I'm the original poster of the *one* "Fuck you" message under Cory's ID. I'm not this "moo" guy, I couldn't give a fook about anonymity. Just to clarify.

I really like this site and would hate to see it go away. I guess fcking around that day was a mistake. For what it's worth, I'm sorry Cory. I didn't know that you would get so pissed.

I rarely posted in the discussions before, but, if you'd like, I'll never post again. I just don't think that it would be fair to everyone else who enjoys the site to take it down. Just relax, and try not to let people get to you so easily. They're looking for a reaction and once they see how they can affect you, they'll never stop.

yeah fuck that guy... heh

I agree all around. Requiring sign-in reduces an unecessary form of harassment. You can still say your piece, it's just hard to impersonate somebody else while you say it. I guess "moo@cow.gov" would rather be Cory than him[?]self, but fortunately he isn't.

You're doing the right thing, Cory. Don't sweat it.

Anonymity, it seems to me, is only of actual use when there is a need to hear from people who otherwise might be afraid of retaliation. I don't see the BB crowd as a very close-minded or retaliatory group. Nothing's lost by a sign in.

And *please* don't give up. bOING bOING's part of my complete breakfast (with milk, juice and toast). If it went away, I'd stagger around all day, hungry and devoid of interesting factoids.

Mine's a double-cheeseburger, Moo-Cow. Meal's on you.

It was a mystery to me why you started the sign-in.Now at least I know a bit more about it

Edited by author 04-29-2002 04:39 PM
Try YACCS (http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/) which puts the sender's IP address on the posting, so you know generally where it came from.

Installing YACCS is trivially easy.

Edited by author 04-30-2002 08:13 AM
You Whiny little one-stomached supplicant cory!

By royal decree of the Government of Cow, we demand:
- boingboing go to xml self-pickable templates
- an iron-on dedicated to MooCow
(sure to fetch top euro from bell-bottomed hay-seeds
who read this blug not-suited to wrap email virii in)
- MooCow as guest editor is she has the time
- a promise from blahblah readers not to eat meat
for one week
And last,
- "be nice to cows" bumper stickers for butcher trucks
~~~ Moo Cow
p.s. MOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo
p.p.s. You've milked this cory to the hilt!
enjoying the karma whoring? Anonymous posting? Fuck yes!
you change the goddamn rules without telling anyone
and got your chain yanked.

Hopefully, more 3rd rate science fiction writers will
DIE DIE DIE soon. Eat more meat cory. Eat a big steak
tonight. Turn this into a two-day "milking" of a
minor nose tweak.
MOOOOOOOooooOOOOOOOOoooo

Both good suggestions, KH, for someone who wants to pursue anonymity on QuickTopic -- not my job, though.

You can have anonymity without identity theft, by providing an anonymous account. Have all non signed-in posts posted by user "Anonymous".

Or heck, have someone register cypherpunks/cypherpunks with QuickTopic, if it isn't already done.

signing in is just good form anyway. you can respond to multiple entries on this and other sites without having to retype your name and you can subscribe to the discussions you're participating in without typing in your email address. plus you get that cool blue star by your name.

nixon? descartes? really? heh. i must have missed that.

re: When people send me abusive, imperious messages like this, demanding that I change the way I do Boing Boing, it makes me just want to give up.

Cory,

Don't let some anonymous dickhead get you down. Jumpin' Jeeziz on a pogo stick!! I don't know what I would do without my daily dosage of BoingBoing!! I guess I would go into BoingBoing withdrawal... which would make ME want to "give up."

And just to prove it, I will decloak from anonymity!

- Rod "Schniggles" Gillespie

Edited by author 04-29-2002 02:40 PM
Cory - I think filtering out the anonymous (non-registered) postings has the end result of increasing the quality of the discussions as a whole. Sure, there might be a few people who won't post anymore who MIGHT have had 'quality' posts that actually contributed to the discussions - but in the end if they end up behaving like that a-hole did , I personally don't care to hear their $.02 anyway.

What Cow - you are too lazy to spend the 3 seconds to sign up under a fake email address? Go pork yourself!!! Cory spends hours per month making this the best blog going, go troll somewhere else. BESIDES - you need proper accounts to chime in at other places like Metafilter and Fark, and those are only 2nd and 3rd priority sites after Boing-Boing anyway (for me).

I feel the need to contribute here. The smarminess that provikes! a person to assume another, real person's identity for the purpose of gentle ruse may have its place, but when the intention is unequivocally nefarious then we of civil mind and manner may resort to sanctioning that suits our communal ends. If Cory is thin skinned that's on him. If cow or whomever filched the blogger-id is a blat of dung hardening in summer sun; well I think we all understand what we've got here, no?

Take heart: for each of us there is an other who sees us as too big for our britches and feels the compulsion to ring us down a rung or two. If they see us wince at their pricks, they may find regular self-employment in hurling clods however they may find them.

With apologies for Liz Ditz for my signing in not decreasing the vituperousness of my, uh, freaking vocabulary.