On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 7:26 PM Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
> I was personally ambivalent about anonymity on the mailing list.
>
> However, the fact that it appears to be predominantly men arguing for
> banning anonymity and women arguing for allowing it is a tell that us
> men folk might have our lo
I was personally ambivalent about anonymity on the mailing list.
However, the fact that it appears to be predominantly men arguing for
banning anonymity and women arguing for allowing it is a tell that us
men folk might have our lower appendages in our orifices.
cheers
stuart
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...let us be hear
On Jul 14, 2019, at 8:36pm, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> IMHO, the Code4Lib mailing list should not be akin to an anonymous chat room
> where anyone can come in and say whatever they desire under the cloak of
> anonymity.
> One must be accountable for what they say, and accountability is increased
On Jul 14, 2019, at 7:21 PM, Fitchett, Deborah
wrote:
> Less metaphorically: if someone has in the past faced harassment because of
> who they are, or job repercussions because their manager didn't like
> something they said, and wants to avoid that in future by using a pseudonym
> for public
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 4:21 PM Fitchett, Deborah <
deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz> wrote:
> ...If a dog has something useful to post to Code4Lib, why shouldn't they
> be judged on the merits of their email?
>
Anonymity doesn't work in all environments, but it tends to work in small
relatively st
I'd personally disagree with any move to exclude pseudonymous users, especially
if the only grounds are that a pseudonym is seen as "less credible" or even
somehow "disrespectful".
If a dog has something useful to post to Code4Lib, why shouldn't they be judged
on the merits of their email?
Les
Dear Code4Lib folks,
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and teaching, or wish to surface hidden collections in their repositories,
or want to support scholars producing open scholarship, it is imperative to
understand how library software makes these resour
