Peter Wrote:Motty Wrote:I don't know if there's anyway of doing it without laying the forum open to spam, but I reckon I'd post more of my question attempts if I could so anonomously.
That way no-one would know it was me that had made the silly blunder of .... etc.
Just a thought,
would anyone else post more of their attempts if this were the case, are we all a bit sensitive to losing 'face' ? or having it held against us later?
Motty
You are as anonymous as your username allows. The only reason for putting any details about yourself is to help people who may post back to understand the context of the thinking of your answer. The only person who can find out any more about you is the forum administrator who can access your registration e-mail address and I happen to know he is not going to risk his professional integrity sharing stuff like that to hold errors over someone.
Peter
It is worth remembering that the personal message facility allows people to communicate without exchanging "real" e-mail addresses. Unfortunately this can't send attachments so that does require a normal email to be sent that discloses email address. Obviously these may have full name and have company name, but many email addresses are more anonymous; in your case having registered with your work email then that is a giveaway, yet had you registered with your domestic email I would never have guessed, would I? You'd be right to think that Peter and I were interested who "Aitch" might be and although we do know the email address they used, it doesn't tell us anything extra about who they are! If someone registering really wants to say even less about themselves then they could mislead re what timezone you are registering from. Personally I just can't understand what any such additional secrecy gains anyone; not really sure why anyoneone would think "things would be held against them". Who is the fool; the one that makes a foolish mistake and learns or the one who doesn't ask and find out? I can just about see that some people may not wish others that they know at work to associate them with the pseudonym they use on this site; this is in each member's control when registering.
The other thing is that if posted truly incognito as you suggest, someone would be able to reply but effectively "that would be it"; if the original person then wanted to come back to query anything or ask fo more info, then this would inevitably at least suggest that they had been the orginal poster. Also I suppose if there was never any proper two way interchange there would be less motivation for those giving the replies- it would seem more like a task than feel one was helping someone.
However it IS a very valid question. Far fewer have posted anything than we might have hoped and yet there seem to be quite a few who send me stuff separately who I'd have hoped might have posted here but have not, so there is obviously "reluctance" and it would be useful to understand more of the rationale.
As Peter has advised, the Forum will be briefly disabled during the period of the coming exam, so that it couldn't be used to obtain help / information; obviously it is likely to be relatively quiet afterwards (though be good to have some "how was it for you" / "what did you do for question x" type exchanges). I think we will need to take stock and decide whether to continue for another year / what changes we could make / how to integrate more with the enhanced exam support that I know various YM are considering etc / find out how many of those who have registered are interested in continuing or whether they came once and are not interested further etc. Any thoughts on the above would be welcomed
PJW