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	Name:	LifeTime Laker -
	Subject:	Who knows who?
	Date:	9/18/2007 11:50:11 AM

After seeing the post below where a 'newbie' was 'called out' for not introducing himself I started thinking. My registration number is 1612. I have had the same moniker for years. Maybe the latest newbie, POLAR, could share his number with us all. The point is that there are maybe a dozen or so of regulars who know each other and hang together at times. That would be way less than 1% of registered members. Now these 1% think that they should rule the forum because they chose to give up their anonymity. HOGWASH!!!

Now I know personally of five 'lurkers' who read the forum almost every day, if not everyday. (BTW- you guys provide lots of fodder for some good belly laughs when we hang out) I have to assume that others know lurkers too. So I am going to use VERY conservative numbers. Lets say 2000 registered with one lurker each. That is 4000 sets of eyeballs on a regular basis that view this page. Of that 4000 the few 'outed' members think they should rule, everybody has to follow their example and out themselves too. HA HA!!

Bruce has the ability to require a registration process that verifies the identity of EVERY member. He could even make that info available to other registered users. He hasn't. In fact, if my info is correct, he has REPEATEDLY refused to do so. I can see why. He is a smart guy. If he were to do this he would keep the dozen or so and loose the thousands. He seems to understand that folks come to places like this to express or to just read the unfettered opinions of others. Without anonymity you don't get that. What you get is a lot of grandstanding and pontification of the few, slapping each other on the back, ^5's and just generally useless drivel. Not interesting to anyone but the few. For anyone to claim or even think they are better than others based on whether or not someone chooses to 'out' themselves, just shows the arrogance of the few, and possibly the fact that they have no idea how capitalism works. It wasn't that long ago that NO REGISTRATION was required. Some whined and cried to Bruce till he finally instituted the current registration process. It has solved NOTHING. Lakeman still has no clue who I am, who Burran was/is, but he is still obsessed with attempting to 'put me down' and humiliate me at every opportunity. How's that working out for you lakeman?

Speaking of lakeman, that brings me to the psycho factor. It is a FACT that thousand read this forum without ever registering or posting. Statistics tell us that AT LEAST one of lurkers would turn out to be psycho, and at least one registered user. If your personal info is here for all to see/know, then you are at risk. One never knows what may send someone over the edge. What one may post as an innocent comment may be just what the psycho needs to have him start listening to the 'voices in his head', track down the poster and go 'lakeman' on him/her.

I for one (like thousands of others) will continue on with the status quo. I know that those that matter don't mind, and those that mind don't matter.

POLAR, and any other newbies, do not be intimidated into giving up ANY personal info you don't feel comfortable broadcasting to the world. As has been shown recently, it may posted and used against you.