Ain’t I rough enough? Ain’t I tough enough? Ain’t I rich enough, in love enough?

[rolanni]

The bookkeeping is almost done. The little bit that’s left will have to wait until after the con.

The back-brain helpfully supplied me with the rest of the scene I was working on yesterday for George — the “rest” being the stuff that goes in between the sentences. I have made notes. The Leewit will of course be traveling with me, and I hope to have some few minutes to work, in between It All.

I will be freezing the discussion of copyright violation because I won’t be around to unscreen anonymous posts.

And now? I have to pack.

What’re y’all doing that’s fun?

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

For Some Definition of Fun

[sb-moof.livejournal.com]

Waiting for a 2 TB Virtual Disk to initialize so I can install RHEL 6 onto it... I'm sure that must be someone's definition of fun, even though it's not really mine :-)

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Have a good time. Great hair.

I have a thingie at the bottom of my posts which says "Notice! This user has turned on the option that logs IP addresses of anonymous posters."

I have no idea what that means. So I clicked on the little question mark to the right of that Notice! and got a very long page of explanation which I didn't understand. Plus I don't remember ever chosing an option which logs the IP addresses of anonymous posters whatever those are.

So I apologize to all the anonymous posters out there. I promise you ...I will never go and try to find the IP addresses of all you anonymous posters and try to find out who you are. I would never be smart enough to do that. So....you can read my postings or whatever with confidence that I really will never ever know who you are.... ever.

However, it seems that you are a problem to Sharon who has to do extra work because of all you anon posters. So...why don't you just become non anon posters to save her time? That would be nice.

C.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

That setting is in your account, tab 'Privacy', option "IP Address Logging" (below "Captcha" and "Spam Protection"). The default setting is, I think, to log the addresses of all anonymous posters (mine is set to log all posters). You can turn it off if you want.

Note that only the person who made the post (not the comments) sees the addresses. They look like "2011-09-15 09:55 am (local) (from 192.168.130.254)" in the header of the comment (underneath the name of the person). And the point is to be able to identify (and if appropriate report) trolls, spammers, and other abusers who often do so anonymously (the IP address will often let them be identified at least to a source institution, if not the actual machine). Note that just the statement that they are being logged is sometimes enough to stop them doing it.

A lot of people consider that if they are 'anonymous' they can say whatever they like and no one can do anything about it. They can be rude, abusive and generally disruptive because no one knows who they are. This is why FB and Google+ have instituted an "only real names" policy -- what they have missed is that it's not using a "real name" (which isn't even defined, few people use their full legal birth names anywhere), it's being identified. I am known and have a reputation on LJ as 'keristor', for instance, if I start making trouble using that I'll get a bad reputation (my real legal name is irrelevant to that).

Sharon could, if she wanted, just block anonymous comments totally. She doesn't because she's a nice person and knows that many of her readers don't have LJ (or FaceBook or whatever) accounts and (for reasons they find compelling) don't want to get such accounts. And that LJ sometimes logs users out and doesn't tell them so they post as 'anonymous' by accident. Because she's a nice person she generally lets those through the first time, and does if the person doesn't have an account but identifies themself in the comment itself.

Anon commenters

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Hi Keristor:

Thanks for responding to my post. Now I understand better.

For all you anon commenters out there it's easy to join the Live Journal. Even I figured out how to do it. The first level is free too.

I just signed an author to a Toga Party! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Stephanie's series about Cleopatra's daughter, Selene, has another book coming out
around Halloween...so we decided to turn the release event into a Toga Party. Haven't
gone to one of these in decades. We're gonna have to minimize the alcohol but it should
be a blast.

To-ga, to-ga, to-ga.
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks

PS I'm insisting that any frat boys who show up must buy a romance novel. :)

[ruthannereid.livejournal.com]

Writing! That's always fun. :D

Though today, there is a bad side. Our sink's disposal unit is busted.

Oh. Oh, there are bad smells. Oh... *cry*

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

*offers noseplugs*

[mlplouff.livejournal.com]

For fun? I have a peach tart in the oven, making wonderful smells. How I love freestone peaches.