Zephryus wrote:
Stubbornly furthering an inflammitory argument after it has been declared moot is the very essence of drama. I respectfully ask that you stop poking and allow the wound to heal.
Tancorix wrote:
Let it go...There are more important things to be doing and planning for!
Zephryus, Tancorix, while it would seem "big of you" both to tell DVD Burner to "Let it go", yours is more likely an example of how "talk is cheap": It is quite easy for you both to tell DVD Burner to dismiss his own frustrations. This is easier said than done.
DVD Burner has a valid point about Allanon3. Zephryus, if we are truely interested in "allowing the wound to heal", then it might be best that we give some validation to DVD Burner's point. This would help DVD Burner's particular wound to heal (and then we can be done with it).
With regards to Allanon3, as I've written above, we can side-step much of the he-said, she-said of Allanon3 in particular, but nonetheless make a few points about how that individual life-cycle played itself out on e-playa. We will never really get to the answer of whose hand fits that sock: This IS something that we'll have to "let go of". Nonetheless, I believe DVD Burner's point was that Allanon3 was not necessarily a third manifestation of Allanon2, who would not necessarily have been a second manifestation of Allanon1, who would not necessarily have been a first manifestation of Allanon0. I think what DVD Burner would like to do is to be able to point out that Allanon3 is more of a "shadow puppet", than a "sock puppet".
As a solution, if we add to to our E-playa lexicon, the term- "
shadow puppet", as opposed to the existing term of "
sock puppet", which has so-far been abridged as "
sock", this should codify the phenomena and people can refer to it for what it is.
Shadow puppet as an example: If I wanted to create a "shadow puppet" of another user, Tancorix would be a good candidate to shadow. I could create Tancorix II, mimicking the writing style of Tancorix until I had lulled or duped people into believing that Tancorix II was simply the past user Tancorix who'd been subjected to some bureaucratic name change for some reason. At some point, I could begin perverting the original Tancorix's writing style to make it appear that Tancorix (now named Tancorix II) was somehow going insane and had begun flinging excrement. This could also serve to prank the Admin into deactivating all accounts that began with "Tancorix". This would be a malicious prank. This is what it would mean to "shadow puppet" another user.
Shadow puppets are a nefarious form of sock puppet. Sock puppets alone, are not necessarily bad or negative. Where would we be today if someone had taken away all of William Shakespeare's socks? Using the indiscriminate power of the TOS, E-playans may be trying to tame something that doesn't necessarily need to be tamed or cannot ever be tamed.
The TOS can be misused to mistakenly eliminate the diversity of the eplaya to a point where everyone looks the same and thinks the same and sounds exactly the same. I believe that some users want everyone to be the same, to play nice, be polite, and always vote for Larry Harvey. But
this is not Burning Man. Go to Burning Man (Online or Event) and you will find drama, whether you like drama or not. We're a bunch of artists. The socks and shadows will always be with us.
Panther
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Also read my post above-
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... 4121#44121
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"Power and Authority for Evicting E-playans".
