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Anonymous answers

BadMiker — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:26:03 -0800

Quick one; how can I answer an AskMeFi anonymously?

By: KathrynT

KathrynT — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:26:59 -0800

Send an email to the mods with your answer and they'll post it for you, or open a sockpuppet account.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:27:00 -0800

Get a sockpuppet.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:27:26 -0800

Contact the mods and ask them to post it for you.

By: BadMiker

BadMiker — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:27:56 -0800

Thanks. How do I know which mods are online?

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:28:50 -0800

We all receive mail at that contact form; whoever is around will generally respond within a few minutes.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:28:52 -0800

It doesn't matter, there's always someone watching and they all get the email sent via the contact form.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:29:12 -0800

The contact form wakes all of them up with a signal to the shocker belt they wear.

By: Grither

Grither — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:29:16 -0800

The contact form goes to all the mods.

And it's ok, we all know you've done a little ecstasy in your time, no need to hide it from us. We don't judge.

By: BadMiker

BadMiker — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:31:15 -0800

Braw, thanks.

Lovin the idea of being a sockpuppet.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:31:56 -0800

Thanks. How do I know which mods are online?

This is easy. Find a bug in the site. Make a MeTa about said bug. pb will respond in under five minutes, no matter where he is or what he's doing. (My sources tell me he has a chip implanted in his brain.)

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:43:49 -0800

Hi -- I dropped you an email back but basically everyone here has it covered. To recap:

- You are welcome to have a secondary account for the purpose of occasionally making comments you don't want associated with your main account.
- We strongly prefer that people have one main account [i.e. don't start using the secondary account as if it were a separate person on the site, but you don't have to associate it with your main account though we will know on the back end that it is you usually] but talk to us if you have questions. Many people note "this is a sock puppet" on the profile page of their sock puppet account.
- Using a secondary account to get around posting limits is not okay, the limits are per person not per account.
- Using a secondary account in any way to do weird back-and-forth commenting with your main account is very not okay. Do not make up a fake human identity for your sock puppet especially one that is a different gender or location from you. This rarely comes up but it's weird when it does.
- We are also happy to post comments in AskMe threads that we'll say "This is from a MeFite who would prefer to remain anonymous" so that's an option as well. We will not pass messages back and forth if someone wishes to get ahold of the person who had us post something for them (though occasionally we'll point something out to you if your comment got a lot of favorites)

Let us know if you have any other questions.

By: bongo_x

bongo_x — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:40:57 -0800

(My sources tell me he has a chip implanted in his brain.)

I read that as "chimp", which would be really interesting.

By: misha

misha — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:45:24 -0800

Can't be a chimp or by now he'd have written ten Shakespearean plays.

By: pb

pb — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:58:49 -0800

No one knows my chimp pen name.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:02:15 -0800

No one knows my chimp pen name.

You named the cage they keep you in? That's sick, dude.

By: The 10th Regiment of Foot

The 10th Regiment of Foot — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:45:03 -0800

It's cool, I promise not to tell anyone about the "blisters". You can just MeMail me and I'll post your answer for you.

By: L'Estrange Fruit

L'Estrange Fruit — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:28:57 -0800

The contact form wakes all of them up with a signal to the shocker belt they wear.

Misread that as "hooker belt." I was greatly intrigued and wished to subscribe to the newsletter.

By: patheral

patheral — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:12:28 -0800

There seems to be a lot of misreading in this thread... chimps and hookers. What's going on with the world today?

By: L'Estrange Fruit

L'Estrange Fruit — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:31:37 -0800

There's people on the street
Getting diseases from monkeys
Yeah, that's what I said
They're getting diseases from monkeys
Now, there's junkies with monkey disease
Who's touching these monkeys?
Please, leave these poor sick monkeys alone
They've got problems enough as it is

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:33:49 -0800

I love Janet Jackson!

By: lollusc

lollusc — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:31:32 -0800

This post almost made me fork over another $5 just so I could get a sockpuppet account with the name "This is from a MeFite who would prefer to remain anonymous". Or maybe someone else already did that.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:53:20 -0800

The streets are cruel
He tries to act cool
He goes to work with only his one tool
You can put away your tool, Jemaine

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:51:35 -0800

I think it's admirable that L'Estrange Fruit is talking about the issues but is keeping it funky.

By: L'Estrange Fruit

L'Estrange Fruit — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:09:35 -0800

Stop touching that monkey.