Ever confused by anonymitiy? (20)

1 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-15 03:05 ID:b0WPrWkl

In a truly anonymous chat, what is to keep a person from getting so immersed in a discussion that they forget what they have written and start inadvertently responding to themselves? Some writing styles are unique enough that a person has a good chance of being anonymously unique, but most are not.

2 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-15 03:38 ID:8kH4RTog

I suppose it's possible, but for most of us it would take months to forget a thread on site where threads are long-lived enough to be forgotten and then responded to again. Add to that the reluctance most of us have to responding to old discussions, and yeah. Very unlikely.

Unless you're like some kind of retarded or whatever.

3 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-15 04:21 ID:WgPfxuMK

>>1
I've actually done this two or three times when posting in 4-ch threads that have been around for a really long time.

4 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-15 04:40 ID:b0WPrWkl

>>2
A more active discussion with many users was implied. It could definitely happen for long running threads.

>>3
How can you be certain?

5 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-15 07:08 ID:Heaven

Hm.....

6 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-15 08:01 ID:g7d0cfi/

>>4
I considered that possibility and dismissed it because I didn't think most people are that mentally challenged.

7 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-15 15:14 ID:6IOp9wOL

>>6
I used to think the same thing, but the past few years lean toward a general decline in intelligence and focus.

8 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-16 16:25 ID:JSr39cnF

ED is friggin hilarious.

9 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-18 21:49 ID:Heaven

> ID:b0WPrWkl

10 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-20 23:52 ID:mHl34O3O

I'm reading this entire thread as if one person has written it.

11 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-21 19:36 ID:kWULkinv

I think once I saw a post here that I related to and responded to it.

...then noticed that the post was more than a year old, someone had bumped it, and that I had written something like that years ago.

12 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-22 05:57 ID:Heaven

13 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-08-24 07:09 ID:Heaven

>>10 Only one person has.
>>9 From multiple IP addresses/proxies.
>>1-12 TALKING TO MYSELF.

14 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-10-28 21:48 ID:I22W6St2

no

15 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-10-28 23:04 ID:YbcBGilR

I dunno if I was >>11, >>3, both, or neither...

I think I posted in the thread and said something along those lines, though

16 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-02-19 07:53 ID:iVrUqIBQ

so~
how could you explain why is my ID could be different if when i wrote with the same computer(though this is office ofice computer).
is our office used an un-unique IP or something?

17 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-02-22 20:45 ID:FFmNoJdt

>>16
seems your office don't have an static ip. pretty normal for most connections.

18 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-02-22 23:32 ID:Heaven

>>16

Or, you are routing through TOR, as any paranoid nutcrack here does :)

19 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-02-23 06:01 ID:mNTP+i43

i make posts and am surprised i made them. like they resonate with me in some way, then i remember i wrote it.

20 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-03-04 23:20 ID:DbszV3in

I wish I could do that on purpose. I tend to give others better advice than I follow myself.

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