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transLivejournal has a property you can enable on your account which allows you to log the IP address of people who reply to your posts. I am asking people who post to these communities to TURN THIS OFF. Not everyone has an IP address that is effectively anonymous -- some of us have domains and web sites, which can be used to obtain personally identifying information.
THIS IS BAD
I, myself, will not respond to comments if this is the case. I must also ask why people feel it is necesssary to identify people who are not posting anonymously.
I would also like to warn other transgendered people who may not be aware that simply having one's IP address makes it possible to do any number of nasty things, will quite probably point to the user's approximate geographical area, and will most certainly show your choice of ISP. If you value your privacy, do not respond to these posts which log IP addresses. In fact, I ask that nobody respond to such posts, so we can disabuse people of this.
**** UPDATE ****
Apparently this is a per-community setting. Most of this post still applies, though, with the addition that not only the community maintainer but the original poster can see IP addresses of comment replies. I will try to address this with individual community maintainers and lobby for some changes. I'd still like to post this information so the community is aware of it. I am not, however, going to cross-post it all over high heaven.
I can't respond to comments due to the logging apparently enabled on this community, so I will address them below .
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starlights, I'd like to address some of your thoughts. I am a relatively prominent person in many respects, and I have a lot to lose (such as my ability to complete transition) from such a mishap. I'm simply protecting my own interests, not "hiding from the world." I am completely open about who I am.
It is one thing to log the IP address of anonymous posters, and quite another for those with regular accounts that can be dealt with by the abuse team or the community maintainer. That's why that option exists. We don't need someones IP address to report a poster with a journal account. We just delete the post and ban them.
My location is in my profile as well, but not everyone has the same preferences as to what information about them is available. Thanks for sharing your opinion on this, but it has little to do with people calling us weirdos and more to do with possibly devastating real-life consequences.
You don't mind if I post your IP address then? Of course not! You have a dynamically assigned, effectively anonymous IP for your cable, and your computer does not serve up personally identifying information. Others of us are not in such circumstances.
I don't care what other people think. I know how a lot of people in this community feel, and I think this needs to be brought to their attention so they can protect themselves.
Your whole attitude clearly shows that you feel people with perfectly valid privacy needs are "hiding from the world." That's sounds like a judgement to me. It seems that you do care what people think, and derive some kind of strange righteousness from your position.
Everyone's different. While this may make some people feel safe, it makes me feel distinctly unsafe.
imfallingup, that's exactly what it means. In this context, an anonymous poster is one that replies without logging into an actual journal account. That is the only definition that matters, since this is LJ, and that's how they define it. (Everyone here is effectively anonymous anyway, so other distinctions really have no meaning.) You may have your own personal definition of anonymous, and that's fine, but it doesn't invalidate my point, nor is it a strong argument for logging IP addersses.
If there is a problem with someone "creating journals as quickly as [they] want," that can be dealt with through other means than logging everyone's IP address. Since, by definition, they are not anonymous, their sign-up IP address is already associated with their account. If they are abusing the system through the creation of spurious journals, the abuse team can deal with that on its own. It doesn't mean we need to log everyone. In fact, this entire thing seems as though a solution to a non-problem: have there ever been any instances of this occuring?
THIS IS BAD
I, myself, will not respond to comments if this is the case. I must also ask why people feel it is necesssary to identify people who are not posting anonymously.
I would also like to warn other transgendered people who may not be aware that simply having one's IP address makes it possible to do any number of nasty things, will quite probably point to the user's approximate geographical area, and will most certainly show your choice of ISP. If you value your privacy, do not respond to these posts which log IP addresses. In fact, I ask that nobody respond to such posts, so we can disabuse people of this.
**** UPDATE ****
Apparently this is a per-community setting. Most of this post still applies, though, with the addition that not only the community maintainer but the original poster can see IP addresses of comment replies. I will try to address this with individual community maintainers and lobby for some changes. I'd still like to post this information so the community is aware of it. I am not, however, going to cross-post it all over high heaven.
I can't respond to comments due to the logging apparently enabled on this community, so I will address them below .
starlights, I'd like to address some of your thoughts. I am a relatively prominent person in many respects, and I have a lot to lose (such as my ability to complete transition) from such a mishap. I'm simply protecting my own interests, not "hiding from the world." I am completely open about who I am.It is one thing to log the IP address of anonymous posters, and quite another for those with regular accounts that can be dealt with by the abuse team or the community maintainer. That's why that option exists. We don't need someones IP address to report a poster with a journal account. We just delete the post and ban them.
My location is in my profile as well, but not everyone has the same preferences as to what information about them is available. Thanks for sharing your opinion on this, but it has little to do with people calling us weirdos and more to do with possibly devastating real-life consequences.
You don't mind if I post your IP address then? Of course not! You have a dynamically assigned, effectively anonymous IP for your cable, and your computer does not serve up personally identifying information. Others of us are not in such circumstances.
I don't care what other people think. I know how a lot of people in this community feel, and I think this needs to be brought to their attention so they can protect themselves.
Your whole attitude clearly shows that you feel people with perfectly valid privacy needs are "hiding from the world." That's sounds like a judgement to me. It seems that you do care what people think, and derive some kind of strange righteousness from your position.
Everyone's different. While this may make some people feel safe, it makes me feel distinctly unsafe.
imfallingup, that's exactly what it means. In this context, an anonymous poster is one that replies without logging into an actual journal account. That is the only definition that matters, since this is LJ, and that's how they define it. (Everyone here is effectively anonymous anyway, so other distinctions really have no meaning.) You may have your own personal definition of anonymous, and that's fine, but it doesn't invalidate my point, nor is it a strong argument for logging IP addersses.If there is a problem with someone "creating journals as quickly as [they] want," that can be dealt with through other means than logging everyone's IP address. Since, by definition, they are not anonymous, their sign-up IP address is already associated with their account. If they are abusing the system through the creation of spurious journals, the abuse team can deal with that on its own. It doesn't mean we need to log everyone. In fact, this entire thing seems as though a solution to a non-problem: have there ever been any instances of this occuring?