Mr Anonymous? : Othor Games

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:36 pm

whenever i go onto these forums i always see like 70 members 20 guests and 6 anonymous members.
who are the anonymous members anyway

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:19 pm

loners. like me 1 minute ago

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:15 pm

This is in the Skyrim section.. because?

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:29 am

It's the devs of other games, they come to steal our ideas

Today I make a suggestion for nice graphics and tomorrow bam! they make Crysis 2.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:25 pm

I am one, not that I have anything to hide. I must've accidentally chose this option when I joined and I haven't gotten around to changing it yet.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:45 am

Oh, I was hoping that this will be a thread about how can you stay an anonymous hero instead of having everyone knowing of you and stuff. :mellow:

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:55 pm

Personally I often sign in anonymously because I have a nasty habit of opening topics in tabs and forgetting to close them for a while, and I'd rather people see an anonymous user reading their topic for an hour (i.e. having it open in a forgotten tab for an hour) than have them see my username.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:58 pm

They're ninjas.
However, it's funny you mention it, because when I signed in today, ninja mode was gone. Odd.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:37 pm

who are the anonymous members anyway

Members who signed in but checked the "Sign in as anonymous" as they don't want to be seen. That feature has now been removed so the only way to look at the forums without your name being shown at the bottom of the page is to do so without signing in - you are listed as a guest.

Even the moderators have lost the ability to be sneaky.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:16 pm

Members who signed in but checked the "Sign in as anonymous" as they don't want to be seen. That feature has now been removed so the only way to look at the forums without your name being shown at the bottom of the page is to do so without signing in - you are listed as a guest.

It has? It didn't do any harm so I wonder why it was removed?

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:59 pm

It has? It didn't do any harm so I wonder why it was removed?

They want to know what you're doing at all times.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:50 am

Members who signed in but checked the "Sign in as anonymous" as they don't want to be seen. That feature has now been removed so the only way to look at the forums without your name being shown at the bottom of the page is to do so without signing in - you are listed as a guest.

Even the moderators have lost the ability to be sneaky.

I smell Big ~~Brother~~ Bear. . .

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:53 am

Members who signed in but checked the "Sign in as anonymous" as they don't want to be seen. That feature has now been removed so the only way to look at the forums without your name being shown at the bottom of the page is to do so without signing in - you are listed as a guest.

Even the moderators have lost the ability to be sneaky.

So all anonymous users are devs?

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:30 pm

So all anonymous users are devs?

Nope.

They could have been any registered member who doesn't want to be seen listed.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:27 pm

I almost thought this thread was about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:46 am

Personally I often sign in anonymously because I have a nasty habit of opening topics in tabs and forgetting to close them for a while, and I'd rather people see an anonymous user reading their topic for an hour (i.e. having it open in a forgotten tab for an hour) than have them see my username.

AFAIK, you will only be listed in the most recently viewed page, and will automatically appear as offline after ~20 minutes of inactivity.

The server can't tell the difference between you sitting on a webpage and closing it. It only can see new requests, not the absence of them. And since pages don't auto-refresh for new content, I don't think there is any AJAX going on to test if a user truly is still viewing a page.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:52 pm

They want to know what you're doing at all times.

I'm being watched! :unsure2:

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:48 pm

AH! I always signed in anonymous. I feel so.....violated seeing my name at the bottom of the thread now.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:18 pm

Sup.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:46 pm

So all anonymous users are devs?

Nope the CIA, KGB, and MSS also sign in as anonymous.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:56 am

Can someone explain to me why I can no longer sign in anonymously? Did Bethesda remove this ability, or is there something wrong with my eyes? Feel free to close the thread once an answer has turned up.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:30 am

They removed it.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:14 am

They removed it.

Damn, I rather liked that feature.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:30 pm

There was a thread like this yesterday, yes, they removed it

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:43 pm

There was a thread like this yesterday, yes, they removed it

Wut?

Now BGSF skills are being pruned just like Skyrims skills and game mechanics? They are dumbing down the forums now!!! :ahhh: