Does this apply to the mailing list or just the forum? I would like
to object to this if it applies to the mailing list. I don't specify
my full name for a very good reason. The type of work I am doing is
proprietary/sensitive and don't want any questions I ask, even though
I try to ask generic enough questions, to reveal what I am doing, or
how I am doing it, and it be traceable to the company and my customer.
It would not be a good thing for anyone on my side. If someone
wants to try to track me down through my email, well, I can only do so
much, with out considerable more effort, but I do what I can.
Ed (or maybe, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Thomas, John, Freddy, or....)
Quoting Art Tevs <arti_t...@yahoo.de>:
Hello dear forum users,
in order to establish a nice etiquette in our community, we have
decided to suspend user accounts which do not correspond to forum's
rules. The main reason is that a lot of forum users don't have valid
real names specified. The problem in that is, that your posts are
also visible by the mailing list members and that more or less blind
kind of conversation isn't appropriate for our community. Please
take a look into this thread, written by Robert Osfield:
http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?t=2498 to see what I
mean!!!
So, user accounts who's real names are either not full (by full we
understand First and Last name) or are of some cryptic nature (e.g.
XMen, 3D Master, etc) will be put into moderation queue by me in the
next hours.
Messages posted by moderated/suspended accounts are not visible and
also not forwarded to the mailing list, until they get approved by
moderatos. Hence you still able to post, however until you do not
correct your profile to match the forum rules
(http://forum.openscenegraph.org/rules.php) your messages will not
be visible by other members of our community.
Hence if you like to join us, you are asked to follow the netiquette
established in many years of mailing list era.
So again:
- you have to specify a valid real name in your profile. Valid real
name is of type "First Last" name, for example "John McCourkey",
"Alice Smith", etc...
- Names with more than 2 words are allowed, e.g. "Hans Peter Maier".
- If it is not appropriate to have such names in your culture or
you want to preserve some kind of anonymity, then please use a
pseudonym (which match the both previous points!!!), however use it
persistently in all your communications within our community.
- you can disable "Always show my realname" in your profile
settings, then your name wouldn't be visible on the forum and will
also not be indexed by Google etc when indexing the forum page!
However it will still be used in mails sent to the mailing list, so
this is the same level of anonymity as if you have used mailing list
only
Thank you and sorry for such circumstances
Art
P.S. Users who recieve an email with subject "Your account on
OpenSceneGraph Forum is now moderated/suspended" are landed on the
moderation queue. So they are asked to correct their profiles!
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http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11678#11678
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