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Itโ€™s been a long time but itโ€™s nice to see that some people came back.

We, as a community, can be the ones you can come to for anything and everything. People here are happy to lend a listening ear or give some advice or share their own experiences.

You're in a place run off of love, and people are here for you. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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What is up people out there?

Weekend starting, which is my busiest time of the week, so time to activate overdrive and go crazy. ๐Ÿ˜„

What's up with you?

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

PepperJ wrote:

BIG-AL-ONE wrote:
Troll power X 10,000
....You'll see.

Agree.

Admin needs to be able to identify trolls and mean people and ban them.

Mods are still able to see, identify, and ban anonymous users just as effectively- this will have no effect on the ability mods have. It may make a few trolls think they have more power... Only to be shut down when they realize it doesn't actually get them anywhere when they receive warnings or bans. ๐Ÿ˜›

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

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Will probably call the closing of the poll at the beginning of next week to give the rest of the community time to see and vote. Feel free to invite anybody you think may be interested. ๐Ÿ˜„

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

Yอคอญอฅฬ‡eti. wrote:

Rockster160 wrote:
Can you elaborate on this? Not sure I'm understanding the question.
Is it difficult to make an anonicon unique per-post? I don't think so. It should be pretty easy, as the Anonicons are generated using a hash of characters. As long as the same hash is used, it spits on the same icon. So all we'd need to do is add the post id to that hash and boom- new unique hash per post per user.

I mean, to allow both simultaneously - say, by default it acts as now, unique per ip / user or whatnot. The user can change that to a setting of "per post anon", which adds post id to the anon input seed henceforth (no automatic retrospective alteration - posts made whilst on the unique setting will use the same ip only seed). Then they can change back, and new posts / replies won't use pid in seed.
But I'm kinda assuming on the whole structure, haven't really researched the anon generator code.

I think the hardest part there is communicating that to the user. Many people would get confused there.
Sounds like most people like the way they are currently anyway. ๐Ÿ˜„

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

Yอคอญอฅฬ‡eti. wrote:
Yeah, I was thinking manual refresh more for the sake of getting the pattern / colour combination of one's preference, than obfuscation. :)

I quite like this idea, actually. It'd still be "random" but you could generate a bunch until you find one that you like.
It seems the concern many people have is that people "learn" their anonicon and then they aren't really anonymous anymore, and this only sort of solves that problem. It kind of still solves it because unless those users are keeping tabs on the other posts and go back to reference them to compare the anonicon, it wouldn't be an issue. (And that would be a lot of work for the prying user- there are much easier ways to figure out an anonymous user than that...)

Yอคอญอฅฬ‡eti. wrote:
It seemed that goal was achieved pretty naturally in general - ralphie would always complain about my monthly avatar + name changes and take me for a new person, for a while. Eventually got to the point that the change's randomness was actually his cue...

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Yอคอญอฅฬ‡eti. wrote:
Would you deem it difficult to create a user setting of per post anon - unique?

Can you elaborate on this? Not sure I'm understanding the question.
Is it difficult to make an anonicon unique per-post? I don't think so. It should be pretty easy, as the Anonicons are generated using a hash of characters. As long as the same hash is used, it spits out the same icon. So all we'd need to do is add the post id to that hash and boom- new unique hash per post per user.

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Other than guessing from language, can anyone tell who the anonymous posters are?

The poll is up! Cast your vote here. ๐Ÿ˜„

https://help-qa.com/posts/515-help-qa-feature-p...

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

(Donโ€™t tell Yeti that I edited the poll...)

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

โ€œEvery so oftenโ€ would need to be defined. ๐Ÿ˜› Manually changing is another interesting idea.

However, if itโ€™s manually changed it would be the equivalent of changing your username/avatar- any previous posts would also be updated and show your new anonicon.

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Everybody go watch this terrifying AI documentary:

I'm excited for AI. I think humans should do what humans are best at: creativity.

AI is very powerful and can take care of many mundane needs. It's VERY far from concepts of "empathy" or "creativity"/thinking on it's own, but can remove the necessity of tasks we currently have no business doing.

Like driving. Humans should not operate vehicles that move faster than we can run. We are too easily distracted and make too many mistakes.
Sure, our smart cars make a few mistakes, but if we really dedicated resources to it, we could stop people from driving cars in no time, and I think that's a HUGE benefit to society.

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