Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads Forum
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Anonymous Posting
Anonymous posting is only appropriate when you are revealing sensitive employment related information about a firm, job, etc. You may anonymously respond on topic to these threads. Unacceptable uses include: harassing another user, joking around, testing the feature, or other things that are more appropriate in the lounge.
Failure to follow these rules will get you outed, warned, or banned.
- jbagelboy
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Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
Unless your post contains legitimately sensitive or personal employment information.
You don't need the anonymous function to discuss a collateral point, make a joke, or relay information or advise completely unrelated to who you are, where you work, or something else personal to you or your professional environment.
You don't need the anonymous function to discuss a collateral point, make a joke, or relay information or advise completely unrelated to who you are, where you work, or something else personal to you or your professional environment.
- jbagelboy
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
BTW this is me.
Anonymous User wrote:Unless your post contains legitimately sensitive or personal employment information.
You don't need the anonymous function to discuss a collateral point, make a joke, or relay information or advise completely unrelated to who you are, where you work, or something else personal to you or your professional environment.
- cookiejar1
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
Ignore bagelboy everyone, this is actually me.
Anonymous User wrote:Unless your post contains legitimately sensitive or personal employment information.
You don't need the anonymous function to discuss a collateral point, make a joke, or relay information or advise completely unrelated to who you are, where you work, or something else personal to you or your professional environment.
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
I wish you guys wouldn't try and take credit for my post.cookiejar1 wrote:Ignore bagelboy everyone, this is actually me.
Anonymous User wrote:Unless your post contains legitimately sensitive or personal employment information.
You don't need the anonymous function to discuss a collateral point, make a joke, or relay information or advise completely unrelated to who you are, where you work, or something else personal to you or your professional environment.
ETA: didn't actually mean to do this anonymously, but I think it works better.
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
First anon is NOT me, the OP.Anonymous User wrote:I wish you guys wouldn't try and take credit for my post.cookiejar1 wrote:Ignore bagelboy everyone, this is actually me.
Anonymous User wrote:Unless your post contains legitimately sensitive or personal employment information.
You don't need the anonymous function to discuss a collateral point, make a joke, or relay information or advise completely unrelated to who you are, where you work, or something else personal to you or your professional environment.
ETA: didn't actually mean to do this anonymously, but I think it works better.
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- A. Nony Mouse
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
Okay, I think we are back on track here.
- FuturePaulClement
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
You're not the boss of me.
- A. Nony Mouse
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
No, but I can out people who post anon.
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
What's with the "accidental anon" posts? I have a hard time believing that a group of supposedly smart people who get paid to pay attention to detail regularly "accidentally" click the wrong button on a forum they visit multiple times per week.
I've suspected it's a way to keep open the option of deleting the "oops, that was me" post later, and if anyone quotes the substantial post, it just remains on the site as an anonymous quotation.
I've suspected it's a way to keep open the option of deleting the "oops, that was me" post later, and if anyone quotes the substantial post, it just remains on the site as an anonymous quotation.
- A. Nony Mouse
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
Actually the anonymous quote button (on the desktop version) is newer and looks a lot like the regular quote button. (Tougher on a phone where the options are spelled out.)
- JenDarby
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
If you post mainly from your phone in the lounge, you're clicking that upper right hand button way more than a few times a week. It's pretty easy to move into the on topics, click the upper right button, and accidentally be anon.smallfirmassociate wrote:What's with the "accidental anon" posts? I have a hard time believing that a group of supposedly smart people who get paid to pay attention to detail regularly "accidentally" click the wrong button on a forum they visit multiple times per week.
I've suspected it's a way to keep open the option of deleting the "oops, that was me" post later, and if anyone quotes the substantial post, it just remains on the site as an anonymous quotation.

It's exactly the same but orange and overtakes the non anon lounge quote position.
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
Ah, ok, that makes sense. I'm not a lounge poster. Thanks for the explanation.JenDarby wrote: It's exactly the same but orange and overtakes the non anon lounge quote position.
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Re: Stop Posting Anonymously in Legal Employment Threads
Most times I feel users use the anon feature to broadcast their opinions on various topics to have an unnecessary blanket of security (as if an arbitrary username wasn't anon enough). The people on these forums care wayyyy too much about what other people think about them. I'm sure if the attorneys who browse these forums could use the anon feature irl they'd be much more comfortable interacting with others on a more social level. Just goes to show you how socially autistic this profession is.
The above opinion and social commentary is proudly submitted non-anon.
The above opinion and social commentary is proudly submitted non-anon.
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