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Anonymous A started this discussion 9 years ago#61,809
Back in the spring of 2005, I began using the “Stumble” extension of FireFox. As a result, I “stumbled” across Anonyblog.com. At that time, there were a lot of thought-provoking anonymous posts that generated spirited discussion on a wide-range of topics. However, as the months wore on, it became painfully clear that the anonymous blog concept doesn’t work, and that a couple of bad apples can spoil the whole bunch.
During this time period, several individuals would change the password to the blog for days at a time, making it inaccessible to the rest of us. Shortly after, a couple of characters began to regularly show up on the site – Kody Bear and Indy. These characters use foul language, post pornographic pictures (even though they are normally removed very shortly thereafter by admin, the damage is done), and are generally offensive. As a result, I would never allow children to access the site.
As time wore on and people became more and more fed up with these characters trying to destroy the site, new vigil-ante characters such as post-deleter made there way onto the anonyblog scene. This only made things much worse. In fact, for a while, anonyblog was in danger of being shutdown permanently. In the end, Kody Bear and Indy have somewhat cleaned up their act. However, there is now nothing of interest on the website – and I would not recommend the site to anyone.
It is a sad commentary on anonymous blogs that these two fictional characters – vile and disgusting as they are – were able to drive all of the truly interested posters and readers (such as myself) from the site. It is sad that setting up an anonymous blog, you take the chance that you will get someone posting disgusting language and/or inappropriate pictures – even if you post strict rules and monitor the site constantly. Quite honestly, it is just too much for a single moderator. While the anonymous blog concept is a good one, it is always at risk of being taken over by trolls such as Kody Bear and Indy. It is sad that there are people out there simply trying to ruin a good thing. While I would have believed that this site would have been appropriate for teenagers when I first started reading it, I changed my mind once Kody Bear and Indy started posting extremely disturbing pictures and posts