Great, so how many times will you be voting this year? |
I thought this was supposed to be an "anonymous" open site. So now Jeff is going to divulge the number of posts and the geographic regions of those who frequent this site? Why? |
This is why I picked on the other poster. |
How does that make the site not anonymous? |
Do you have something to hide? |
So the number of posts is actually way over 1600 if we include your DC posts? |
| Jeff - if you care to respond - how actively do you track who posts what? I'm just curious. I presume there are some sort of tracker apps that help you with this. |
that sounds like something nazis would say to the jewish people when making them wear a yellow star |
That is a completely ridiculous comparison. Jeff is not outing anyone. |
Take off the shiny hat. |
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For the record: Virginia is also a part of the South.
I would imagine there are many posters here who live (and work) in Virginia. And many of them with more than 1600 posts. Now, a true middle-of-the-road moderator (which a mod is supposed to be) would either NOT point out demographics of a particular poster or if they did, also point out someone from the other side, in this case someone on the left. I'll not hold my breath on that one, though. |
The site has never been truly anonymous (i.e., encrypted communications). Jeff has always been able to see the IP addresses of those posting, perhaps even the MAC address for each device (so he can see if someone is traveling in DC one week and Alabama the next week with their same laptop). Frankly, it's smart to do so - if anyone posts illegal content or slanderous information, he can turn over IP addresses if required by a warrant. |
I am not really doing any tracking. I have security software that I use to combat abuse. That is not perfect, but does a pretty good job. However, it doesn't track users. I have looked at IP address for much of the day for over 10 years. I can instantly recognize Verizon, Comcast, RCN, etc. addresses because they are so frequently used. If someone has an address from outside those networks, I notice it. If I notice the same address over and over, the user becomes familiar to me. After the fact -- for instance if I catch someone trolling or sock puppetting, I can frequently get a decent history of their posts, but not always. |
Fair enough, there is a liberal poster who lives in Washington, DC and has posted 25781 messages since 2007, many but not all in the Political Forum. Also, he is short, chubby, wears glasses, and has brown hair. |
Lol! Now that you know 1 person of unknown gender, race, name, address, religion or ethnicity, who resides in 1 of approx 14 states, occasionally travels to DC and frequently posts on DCUM... They are no longer anon. You can now hunt them down and disagree with them face to face. |