[Folk Culture] An Interview with VIPPER! [Paper] (30, permasaged)

1 Name: Folklorist!rLm9RhTEUQ : 2010-11-29 09:57 [Del]

Hello, VIPPER!

Those of you that read the posts in the bump thread should remember a few posts talking about a folk studies project covering the anonymous culture of SAoVQ.

If not, here is an overview: I am doing a project observing the various folk aspects of SAoVQ; lore, traditions, etc.

Well, this thread is for the purpose of me asking questions relating to the folk culture of the AREA, and asking VIPPER for their input.

My first question: Why do you feel anonymity is important on this board?

2 Name: VIPPER : 2010-11-29 10:27 [Del]

Because being a VIPPER is one's identity here.

3 Name: VIPPER : 2010-11-29 10:32 [Del]

Attention-whore-ism is rampant throughout the rest of the internet. More than that,the focus of a discussion board is to discuss, not flaunt some imagined form of status, rank, or whatever. In a sense, anonymity almost creates a sense of egalitarianism.

By the way, have you read Shii's treatise on anonymity?

4 Name: VIPPER : 2010-11-29 10:47 [Del]

>>3 Some Shii's writing is alright. In practice, a small anonymous forum runs as well as any other small forum; a large anonymous forum runs as well as any other large forum.

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