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Hitman84
gatherer
Username: Hitman84
Post Number: 92
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 3:02 pm: |     |
Does anyone know who first started the multiple personality disorder on chatforums ?
Almost all chatforums on the internet have a MPD admin 
Here is an interesting article..
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/blume.html
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Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 1975
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 6:43 pm: | |
Thanks for the article, Hitman84, it IS quite interesting, as an insight on autism.
As for your question, if you are referring to the line on our main page listing "1 administrator with a split personality", that was meant only as a humorous reference to the fact that this board is administered by more than one person.
I have no idea who, if anybody, "started" such a trend, if there is one, but it stands to reason that active sites might need more than one admin, and if this fact is often expressed in a similar terminology by those of us afflicted with a sense of humor, that is neither very surprising, nor profoundly meaningful as far as I can see.
However, if you did refer to that line, then your phrasing implies that you lump JADE in with "chatforums", and this would indicate a lack of clarity on the difference between chat sites and boards that I would like to correct.
JADE is a board. Board posting involves a completely different mentality from "chat". The latter are there to answer needs for human conversation and contact, and are mostly focused on immediate gratification. People post there to get attention, and to get (hopefully interesting) responses NOW. There is very little responsibility assumed for truthfulness and value of input.
Boards, on the other hand, or the better of them at least, strive for attaining valuable long-term content. What you post will be there for anybody to read years hence; and hopefully that knowledge should motivate posters to put some thought into what they submit here. If some people happen to be "on board" at the same time, lively discussions can ensue, and that is certainly beneficial and more enjoyable to the participants; but if your posts are answered with some delay - of a few hours, a few days, or even a few years - that is all right too.
Another aspect of the increased responsibility people are expected to take for their board submissions, that is relevant to your post, is truthfulness in self-presentation. As everybody hopefully knows, the internet is not a very safe place to reveal personal information; but this is a board for adults, who should be capable of deciding on the balance between security and personal involvement they wish to strike. What this means is that nobody has the right to demand any kind of personal information from you - but if you do decide to reveal anything about yourself, you are expected to be truthful about it. Deceptions such as giving a false gender, age, or location are not socially acceptable here.
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Hitman84
gatherer
Username: Hitman84
Post Number: 93
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 9:56 am: | |
quote:As for your question, if you are referring to the line on our main page listing "1 administrator with a split personality", that was meant only as a humorous reference to the fact that this board is administered by more than one person.
I have no idea who, if anybody, "started" such a trend, if there is one, but it stands to reason that active sites might need more than one admin, and if this fact is often expressed in a similar terminology by those of us afflicted with a sense of humor, that is neither very surprising, nor profoundly meaningful as far as I can see. :-)
I feel you should not use the word split personality in a humorous way.
Actually I was on a different forum where a poster used to deliberately take up multiple personalities( though the handle remained the same the same for all the posts, signature names were different ) just for fun. I reported it to the admin and was told he was the official jester of the site and many people thought it was funny. I assumed this as the main idea of split personality on forums
quote:JADE is a board. Board posting involves a completely different mentality from "chat". The latter are there to answer needs for human conversation and contact, and are mostly focused on immediate gratification. People post there to get attention, and to get (hopefully interesting) responses NOW. There is very little responsibility assumed for truthfulness and value of input.
Boards, on the other hand, or the better of them at least, strive for attaining valuable long-term content. What you post will be there for anybody to read years hence; and hopefully that knowledge should motivate posters to put some thought into what they submit here. If some people happen to be "on board" at the same time, lively discussions can ensue, and that is certainly beneficial and more enjoyable to the participants; but if your posts are answered with some delay - of a few hours, a few days, or even a few years - that is all right too.
Brilliant explanation Annie! This is actually the first time I came across a discussion "board" on the internet. I thought there was not much difference between discussion forums, discussion boards etc.. The general term used is "internet forums"
The problem with the internet is that people try to immitate everything in the real world and the philosophy used to immitate is shallow. I'm glad to be posting on a board because this is more "real" than discussion forums. This models the message board in the real world where all you get to know is the post and the name of the poster.
quote:Thanks for the article, Hitman84, it IS quite interesting, as an insight on autism.
duh actually I just wanted to post this paragraph from the link which caught my attention, nonetheless the whole article is very interesting.
quote:Her evidence comes from a rich study of MUDs (Multi-User Domains), on-line sites that allow users to log on under assumed identities. No one checks for a picture ID or a voice print. A man can log on as a woman, a woman as a man. Older people can adopt the persona of the young. Racial barriers fall way. The Internet, as Turkle sees it, encourages multiplicity. Life on-line causes the individual to blossom -- or is it metastasize? -- into many.
I agree that internet encourages multiplicity.
The main aim of the internet is to get as close as possible to the real world. Now, discussion forums
hardly model the real world discussion wherein you can view the people involved in the discussion. The philosophy used in discussion forums is that each user is a person in the real world and the different forums are like different hangouts/homes. Your posts are your side of the conversation and your avatar is the way you look or the way you like to.
In the virtual world you can takeup any personality you want to. This has been taken to a very different level in a game called second life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life
Ok that's it for now, got to annoy someone else in the real world
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Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 1976
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 7:06 pm: | |
Hitman84: I feel you should not use the word split personality in a humorous way.
That's ok, you are allowed to feel that way. 
Hitman84: Brilliant explanation Annie! This is actually the first time I came across a discussion "board" on the internet. I thought there was not much difference between discussion forums, discussion boards etc.. The general term used is "internet forums"
Thanks. But the operative word here is not "forums". All topically arranged sites that allow public posting to them are forums. Boards are usually arranged into forums or groups of forums too. This thread, for example, is in JADE's 'The Questions and Answers Game' forum. The operative words are "board" (whether you want to further specify it as bulletin board, message board, discussion board, debate board, Auel board, or whatever) versus anything involving the word "chat".
BTW, personally, I have never felt the least bit tempted to pretend to be anybody different from who I am, at any site I have visited. I can't see any value in that. If personal details have any relevance to whatever is being discussed, giving false ones would simply invoke the 'GIGO law'. Why on earth would I want to waste time on soliciting irrelevant feedback? 
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Hitman84
gatherer
Username: Hitman84
Post Number: 95
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 7:01 am: | |
Gawk! Ok now I get it. You got annoyed with the word "chat" LOL. I should have used the term discussion forums instead of chat forums
quote:Why on earth would I want to waste time on soliciting irrelevant feedback?
For commercial purposes Its one of the business tricks they use to popularise sites. Well, now since you cleared out the differences, this site is very pure compared to many other sites on the web.
btw I started a thread on mythology and religion forum instead of head clash in regarding the debate between Dawkins and Jaron. I posted it in the wrong window . I could'nt delete it in time, the sever is just too slow  (
The earthquake in Taiwan has disrupted the under sea cables which is our main source of internet
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Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 1977
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 11:20 pm: | |
Well, I don't work for any commercial sites.
OK, I'll move that thread to Clash for you. Hope your net connection improves soon.
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