Topic: How do you feel about not psysically know people from the forum? (Read 504 times)

Yes to me I feel kinda awkward, due to I can't see any one picture I just see nicknames and I believe this forum is the largest of it all in the Crypto atmosphere which in terms we say this is where the journey of bitcoin and other Cryptocurrency start and I believe lots of billionaires and millionaires came out from this forum. Definitely is a big room getting to know any one. Adding to that I guess it keeps your identity safe with you.

One of the reasons why we could only see nicknames instead of a person's real profile and information is that modern technology's one of disadvantages is that it can be used for identity theft. And it worst case scenario, if a person near you knows your information, hacked you with the help of this (assuming) forum's open real life profile openness, could stalk you and even black-mail you. And that single thing could harm such life though not physically, but have a huge negative impact both emotionally and mentally.

This post shows your sensitivity; belongingness ; love for others; sympathy in your heart.  These qualities of heart are present in most of the human being though with different level of quantity.  Some are more concerned; though the others are very less caring for others.
It is sure that whenever we will hear news about the death of someone with whom we dealt in the past may be face to face or through social media chats.  
Becoming sad is natural part of sensitive human being.  The more you dealt some one or the more you were closer to someone; the more you will feel pain.  The lesser dealt with person's death will be giving lesser pain / sadness in your heart.

But I suggest we can just do one thing for the departed soul; just pray God Almighty for peaceful journey of the departed soul.

For me, better like it this way; hiding our true identity under nicknames or usernames. No one really knows me. Besides, I'm really not comfortable chatting up with new people I do not know.

I think a lot of the "real world impact" you can feel depends highly on the stock you put into the forum. For me personally- I likely wouldn't feel too emotional about the passing of a personality on here. However in some other, more intimate channels of communication I participate in within the space, I've formed real bonds and friendships. If any of my friends I've had for years througj these channels were to pass, I think I would certainly be quite distraught.

 If it were for me, I would upload myself to the cloud, avoid any physical presence and just infect systems at my leisure, so you can assume safely that I am happy about being pseudo-anonymous and not knowing others personally.

It doesn't matter we are interacting and treating with people not physically know them, just the name. We never know the personality. It is as the consequent of the improvement of technology which makes the world seems smaller because we can reach the world only by phone. However, it should not hinder us to interact to others, wherever we interact the most crucial is morality and good behave.

Unbelievable about strangers knowing my real identity. Too many passwords are stolen and personal information leaked to take advantage of criminal law. Since there are so many bad guys around us, we need to be careful about everything.

Ahh, this I agree with. Anonymity induces cruelty, as well as more primal feelings and behavior. Social boundaries are blurred or non-existent in an online community without clear rules and self-control is non-existent. There've been loads of studies conducted on this, here's an excerpt from Stanford uni:

- Stanford article

Girlish vanity aside, it does allow us to look into the minds of people and what they become when there are no consequences for their actions, well, at least they don't endure them. Add destructive behavior to the mix and you've got yourself the typical scammer/cyber criminal. That's why online communities need strict rules, as well as people who actively enforce those rules, as people without social norms and control start acting "bad".

Its great not knowing people physically because you can think of them as being who, ever you like and sometimes is good to have an unformed impression of someone.

It is as the consequent of cyber world, because people can easily interact with others even they never know them before. However, they who are interacting in cyber perhaps from different culture, it can be known by the word they use in the treating and chatting. Therefore, we should interact and say as good as possible. No matter we are interacting not physically people.

It is easier to have misunderstandings and categorize people without seeing body language and facial expression. Apart from the hard-out scammers and spammers there are probably not a lot of people I would't have a coffee with. Even some that I haven't particularly got on with on here. Sometimes meeting in person changes that perspective while other times it confirms it.

I don't feel particularly saddened by not meeting most of the people on here since I probably would never have met them in real life. Geographical distance would have ensured that we would be unlikely to meet anywhere other than online or by some miraculous random occurrence whilst travelling. So I see it as an opportunity to meet people that have at least one interest in common  - Crypto. People who I would otherwise never have met.

I think it's worth pointing out the positive side to this as well.

We more and more tend to be living in an echo chamber. People are generally friends with others who share their views and are in similar demographics, their social media pages are filled with stories and articles they agree with, they read news from sources that align with their political views, etc, etc. With ideas like "safe-spaces" and various institutions banning controversial speakers, people are surrounded more and more by only what they want to hear.

The forum is a welcome break from that. There are a number of users here who are on pretty much opposite ends of the spectrum on a variety of political and social issues compared to myself. We are likely in very different demographic groups, and even if we lived on the same street would be unlikely to interact beyond more than a casual greeting. However, they articulate themselves well, and so I've come to respect their opinions, even if I disagree with them.*

If I knew these individuals in person, chances are we wouldn't be more than casual acquaintances, and we certainly wouldn't have in depth discussions. Considering differing opinions, perspectives and views,** and thereby examining your own, even if you don't change your mind, even if all you learn is how to defend your views more effectively, is how you grow as a person.

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*Unfortunately there are significantly more users who do not articulate themselves well and have earned no respect, but that's the price you pay for freedom of speech.

**Provided these views aren't completely at odds with basic facts, like the Flat Earth crowd

This is a the consequence of digital era, now many people are interacting in cyber world. They can see and know the world by smartphone and other devices, these all are as the impact of technology improvement. We can't avoid it.

This is no matter we are interacting with people whom we never probably do not know them, we can know and see them by their words. The word using is reflect their come. We should treat with them as positive as possible.

yes, It is little bit sad having a treating and chatting in this forum while we never know the real personality with whom we treat. However, it should not be a matter or hinder, we should interact and act with good morality and attitude. No matter whom we interact with, no matter where the place we interact, the most important is we should respect and positive. I think this forum is much positive even it works on digital and seems unknown personality.

 

I like Vod, but his avatar frightens me. I'm quite happy to know him on the forum, and, assuming his avatar is accurate, I think it's best to keep it that way.

ps. The Ivory Tower is only comatose because people don't post there. A few good threads could give it the kiss of life.

Not really, you can choose what and how you write your post to be like somebody else.

even without knowing people from the forum for their message to be so to say a psychological portrait of a man.For me personally,what I don't know people from the forum it is not a barrier in order to participate in discussions I am very interested to know the opinion of people unknown to me.

Hypocrite.... So show up at some bitcoin conferences with a nametag. Maybe we can make up?    .... 

Yes, I know that. I myself would love to be corrected, especially by someone I know.

I'll explain why I said that above, Idk if I could express it right though. You know when you are in the midst of debate, you think that you're right, go defense yourself, will be carried away somehow. It would hurt your feelings, even a little bit in a short period of time if someone you know don't take your side. You might think he didn't understand you, until things become clear (either you realize it yourself or it was explained to you) and you're back in your senses, you'll understand if you're wrong and admit that. ** No hard feelings after

I disagree entirely. If everyone agreed with everyone else on everything, the world would be so boring as to barely be worth living in. Similarly, just because I know someone/they are my friend, I wouldn't want them to take my side regardless of if I were right or wrong. Quite the opposite, in fact. I'd expect my friends to call me out the loudest when I'm incorrect.

As mentioned, there a handful of forum members I wouldn't mind grabbing a drink with. Not just to talk about crypto - I thoroughly enjoy having my views and opinions on science, politics and near enough anything else challenged by other intelligent and well thought out points of view.

Variety is the spice of life.

I’ve met a couple forum members. It’s always been a great experience. There are lots of troublemakers here who love to stir up trouble any way they can from behind a keyboard, but we all have a unique shared common interest that I think presented in the right atmosphere would likely turn many forum enemies into friends. I know I’d love to share a beer with anyone who loved Bitcoin as much as I do.

Well I wouldn't exactly sit on anybody here if I met them in person, but I wouldn't mind having a coffee with a few people. 

It is kind of an interesting question, since I and others do spend a lot of time here.  Jet Cash seems like a mellow guy I would like to sit down and have a chat with.  I'm not worried about people knowing my real-life identify necessarily.  I don't have a lot of crypto that could be stolen, or much of anything else.  I have pissed off a lot of idiots here, and I'd prefer if they didn't know who I was, even though most of them would have to have one hell of a plane ride to come here and exact revenge.

Ultimately I think it's better that we're just screen names.  It's not like this on other forums where members have met up in real life, but I think it's appropriate on bitcointalk.

It's better not to know people from here personally/psychically.

Why? (For me) it's because it will just complicate things. As you have said members are having debates here most of the time. I know it's a bit childish to think of this, but if you have debated with someone, other people take sides (either you or the other), and it would hurt your feelings if someone you know won't take yours regardless if you are right or wrong, no?

So, if you knew every member, I think it might not just end here, it could affect you outside the forum as well.

I remember the saying "what you see, what you hear, what you feel, when you go, leave it here"

Already edited as I said but I've realised there must be a bug, or sth.

The spelling you are looking for is "physically".



To be fair, I'm not sure I wouldn't want to know many of you physically either. Keep your disgusting bodies to yourselves as well please.

Thank you for the sarcasm. I had a laugh. Edited.

Psychically know people? While it is disappointing that the technology of brain-computer interfaces has not yet progressed to the point where one can merge one's consciousness with other people's minds over the Internet, I don't see that as being a major problem for this forum. Frankly, most of the people on this forum are not the sort of people I would want to know psychically; I would much prefer that they keep their minds to themselves.

I've been on the Internet for a while. I know that in time, you can form warm relationships with other participants when you discuss things together on a forum. Sometimes you get to know their identity. And sometimes you don't. But the sorrow you'd feel on the passing of a fellow forum member, when it happens and provided you come to know about it, gives you as much grief as someone in the everyday world. Especially if that person had helped you by giving you valuable guidance and advice.

The Ivory Tower is dead, and this is a self-moderated thread, so, no trouble. Thank you.

Keep your identity safe and hidden from the users of the forum or they will rip you off if they find a single mistake from you. They would not even bother to tag you by painting red bringing some issues that happened in another life (if there was an another life by the way.)

Consider me as a living example until I leave the forum or die accidentally at young age ...

PS: Yes sometimes I feel if I would know some of the members in real life. There are some really nice people out here.

PPS: May be you want to move this topic to the Ivory Tower since this serious discussion section is turning out to another spamming section. (It's just my thought)

I especially ask those of you who have been here more than two years, although all comments are welcome.

On the forum, you interact with people every day but you only see a nickname.

I’ve been on other forums before and you get one day when someone says that a certain member has died. That person knew him personally and that is why is saying it on the forum. And then, you think of some debates you shared with him, but all you can remember of him is a soul hidden under a nickname. You feel a bit sad, but not nearly as sad as if you had meet him in person.

I’ve been thinking that I’ll probably be on this forum for many years, getting increasingly involved, and then I think that all people I’ll interact with are souls hidden under nicknames.

In any kind of forum it is good to not personally know many people for privacy reasons (unless they were your friends before), but especially on this one it is more important. If you have been here for many years, you are probably loaded, and that’s why you have to be careful.

For me, the forum is motivating but has this a bit sad part.