{"id":2025,"date":"2011-05-16T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/community-building-vs-anonymity.html"},"modified":"2011-05-16T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T16:54:00","slug":"community-building-vs-anonymity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/community-building-vs-anonymity.html","title":{"rendered":"Community Building vs Anonymity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nLAKE aims to provide transparency through citizen involvement\nand publishing information on the web and through the press.\n

\nThere is a balance between citizen participation when saying things\nwhich one believes may be controversial and being protected\nfrom retaliation for having those potentially unpopular views.\nBecause retaliation can happen there are times when anonymity is appropriate.\nIf someone were\n\nto obtain, and want published, important documents<\/a>\nabout a local issue, they might choose to remain behind the scenes.\nThis does happen with press sources\n\nand could happen here.<\/a>\n

\nHowever, in the realm of community participation and\ncommunity building, it is important for those who have a say to\ndo so in public: both citizens and elected officials.\nLeigh Touchton has commented on this comparing\npeople who speak at the citizen portions of public meetings\nor signing petitions with those who only meet privately with\nelected officials. People who are willing to put their name on\ntheir opinion are more respected than those who will not.\n

\nWe recognize that people often share an IP address because they\nhave one DSL or Cable connection at their home (like John and\nGretchen Quarterman do).\nOr, they are using a shared network (say at the library or at a\ncoffeeshop, as Gretchen Quarterman and George Rhynes\nhave also been known to do). So, we recognize that an IP address\nis not a personal identifier. However, when comments from\nmulitiple people come from the same IP address (leigh.touchton,\nwow, duh, amen, thankyou, sludge) it behooves the address owner\nto take care with their network access.\nWe agree with what jsq wrote about\n\nsockpuppets <\/a>.\n

\nEveryone has a voice and this forum is an opportunity to have yours\nheard, if you choose. If you are too ashamed of your opinion to\nput your name on it, perhaps this forum is not for you. Community\nbuilding comes from people building relationships and having dialog.\nWe may not all agree, but if light is shined on issues, informed\ndecisions might be made and in building community, fears may be\ndecreased.\n

\n– Carolyn, Gretchen and jsq for \n\nLAKE<\/a>, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE aims to provide transparency through citizen involvement and publishing information on the web and through the press. There is a balance between citizen participation when saying things which one believes may be controversial and being protected from retaliation for having those potentially unpopular views. Because retaliation can happen there are times when anonymity is […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,2,3],"tags":[8717,8701,8702,12,7,8700,6],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-government","category-transparency","tag-community","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-wF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}