If anyone would like to friend me on Facebook…

ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
edited December 2024 in All Saints
If anyone would like to friend me on Facebook, I’m at [deleted]

I just wanted to put it out there for any interested Shippies. So many Shipmates who aren’t on board anymore, whom I wish I’d connected with before they left…

Comments

  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    It's probably very unwise to publish Facebook contact details (or any contact details) on a public forum, where it's visible to anyone not just Shipmates.

    I'd suggest sending a PM to anyone you might want to connect to on social media, and they can then decide whether to pass those details on.

    I've deleted the link above

    Alan
    Ship of Fools Admin
  • :( All right, well, if anyone wants to connect with me there, please send a PM.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    Or you could join one of the SoF Facebook groups.
  • Or you could join one of the SoF Facebook groups.

    I’m in the only one I’m aware of – but I don’t think a whole lot of shipmates are there. There’s more than one?
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Or you could join one of the SoF Facebook groups.

    There’s more than one?

    Yes. It’s a long story …
  • Spike wrote: »
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Or you could join one of the SoF Facebook groups.

    There’s more than one?

    Yes. It’s a long story …

    I would love to know and have links to the relevant groups. Unless they’re all just tagged with “ship of fools”…
  • It's probably very unwise to publish Facebook contact details (or any contact details) on a public forum, where it's visible to anyone not just Shipmates.

    I'd suggest sending a PM to anyone you might want to connect to on social media, and they can then decide whether to pass those details on.

    I've deleted the link above

    Alan
    Ship of Fools Admin

    I've always thought that the culture of pseudonymity on SoF to be curious. Presumably if someone wants to share their personal information on a website in the year of our lord 2024, they understand whatever potential "risks" may be involved.

    And, of course, it's even more curious to be told that such a decision is unwise by a person who uses his real name as his username.
  • It's probably very unwise to publish Facebook contact details (or any contact details) on a public forum, where it's visible to anyone not just Shipmates.

    I'd suggest sending a PM to anyone you might want to connect to on social media, and they can then decide whether to pass those details on.

    I've deleted the link above

    Alan
    Ship of Fools Admin

    I've always thought that the culture of pseudonymity on SoF to be curious. Presumably if someone wants to share their personal information on a website in the year of our lord 2024, they understand whatever potential "risks" may be involved.

    And, of course, it's even more curious to be told that such a decision is unwise by a person who uses his real name as his username.

    Well, he has a point, though.
  • I think the use of pseudonyms serves useful purposes. SofF is not a social medium like Facebook or a dating service; it is a discussion forum. If you want to exchange personal information with a Shipmate, you can send a message. I do, sometimes.
  • It's probably very unwise to publish Facebook contact details (or any contact details) on a public forum, where it's visible to anyone not just Shipmates.

    I'd suggest sending a PM to anyone you might want to connect to on social media, and they can then decide whether to pass those details on.

    I've deleted the link above

    Alan
    Ship of Fools Admin
    I've always thought that the culture of pseudonymity on SoF to be curious.
    It’s the opposite for me—I find the use of real names on an Internet forum odd. It’s very much the minority practice on every Internet forum I’ve ever participated in.


  • I'm glad we have it, because, while I wouldn't mind anyone knowing my real identity as far as content goes, there are those who would swoon at my language... and life is too short to keep explaining to people, over and over and over again, the difference between blasphemy and profanity.
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    It's probably very unwise to publish Facebook contact details (or any contact details) on a public forum, where it's visible to anyone not just Shipmates.

    I'd suggest sending a PM to anyone you might want to connect to on social media, and they can then decide whether to pass those details on.

    I've deleted the link above

    Alan
    Ship of Fools Admin
    I've always thought that the culture of pseudonymity on SoF to be curious.
    It’s the opposite for me—I find the use of real names on an Internet forum odd. It’s very much the minority practice on every Internet forum I’ve ever participated in.

    I'm in this camp, too. As a long-standing nickname of the men of my family, my handle here on Ship is suggestive of my surname, but not more than that.
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    It's probably very unwise to publish Facebook contact details (or any contact details) on a public forum, where it's visible to anyone not just Shipmates.

    I'd suggest sending a PM to anyone you might want to connect to on social media, and they can then decide whether to pass those details on.

    I've deleted the link above

    Alan
    Ship of Fools Admin
    I've always thought that the culture of pseudonymity on SoF to be curious.
    It’s the opposite for me—I find the use of real names on an Internet forum odd. It’s very much the minority practice on every Internet forum I’ve ever participated in.


    I don’t mean to malign the practice overall, just that I think it’s curious that when users provide personally identifying information the H&As quickly step in and redact it.

    Perhaps, like forums, this cultural practice is a hangover from the old Internet. I’m not sure people my age, millennial, are as concerned with online anonymity, although I guess I’ve never explicitly asked anyone.
  • Well, you could always ask in the Styx. I'm curious as well but I just assume they have their reasons.
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    It's probably very unwise to publish Facebook contact details (or any contact details) on a public forum, where it's visible to anyone not just Shipmates.

    I'd suggest sending a PM to anyone you might want to connect to on social media, and they can then decide whether to pass those details on.

    I've deleted the link above

    Alan
    Ship of Fools Admin
    I've always thought that the culture of pseudonymity on SoF to be curious.
    It’s the opposite for me—I find the use of real names on an Internet forum odd. It’s very much the minority practice on every Internet forum I’ve ever participated in.


    I don’t mean to malign the practice overall, just that I think it’s curious that when users provide personally identifying information the H&As quickly step in and redact it.
    Well, the Admin here, based on what he said, didn’t redact it just because it was personal information. What he said was “It’s probably very unwise to publish Facebook contact details (or any contact details) on a public forum.” (Emphasis mine.)

    Some may say that’s not much of a difference, that if you have someone’s name you may well be able to figure out there contact info. My experience is maybe, but often not.


  • And then there’s the point of view that says, “You may feel comfortable running that risk for yourself, fine, but we still don’t want you doing it here on our site where we feel some responsibility.”
  • And then there’s the point of view that says, “You may feel comfortable running that risk for yourself, fine, but we still don’t want you doing it here on our site where we feel some responsibility.”

    Yes, I can definitely see that.
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Spike wrote: »
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Or you could join one of the SoF Facebook groups.

    There’s more than one?

    Yes. It’s a long story …

    I would love to know and have links to the relevant groups. Unless they’re all just tagged with “ship of fools”…

    There are two to my knowledge. You seem to be in both of them
  • Spike wrote: »
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Spike wrote: »
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Or you could join one of the SoF Facebook groups.

    There’s more than one?

    Yes. It’s a long story …

    I would love to know and have links to the relevant groups. Unless they’re all just tagged with “ship of fools”…

    There are two to my knowledge. You seem to be in both of them

    Yay! I only knew the one which doesn’t seem to have a lot of Shipmate banter—now I’ve found where all the Shippies hang out! ❤️ In some cases people I’ve not encountered in years…
  • Spike wrote: »
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Spike wrote: »
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Or you could join one of the SoF Facebook groups.

    There’s more than one?

    Yes. It’s a long story …

    I would love to know and have links to the relevant groups. Unless they’re all just tagged with “ship of fools”…

    There are two to my knowledge. You seem to be in both of them

    There are a whole bunch of groups which seem to be connected to one or more unrelated (presumably) music bands that are called ship of fools as well…
  • HarryCH wrote: »
    I think the use of pseudonyms serves useful purposes. SofF is not a social medium like Facebook or a dating service; it is a discussion forum. If you want to exchange personal information with a Shipmate, you can send a message. I do, sometimes.

    Well yes and no. SoF is recognisably a social medium, and many Shipmates regard it as that, even while they post in the Ship's discussion forums. But it is for that reason that the use of pseudonyms is important for posters who are shy, or fear the bullying rife on other platforms, to find a safe home on the Ship. Others have a professional need to retain anonymity.
    I was among Shipmates/ex Shipmates whom @ChastMastr discovered/rediscovered in that, er, other place. Obviously we're not anonymous there. And his post there prompted me to see if my Ship login still worked. Wotcha know, it does.
  • Hello, Foaming Draught, long time no see!
  • Hello, Foaming Draught, long time no see!

    Back at ya, @Sandemaniac 🍻
  • If anyone knows me in r/l please be aware that I have been hacked
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    I did try to contact you a while ago, Priscilla on FB with ID in case you thought I was a dodgy Internet person, but if you’re prone to hacking prob good that no response.🫤
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    prompted me to see if my Ship login still worked. Wotcha know, it does.
    Wotcha know, we didn't find a reason to ban you in your absence. Welcome back.

    Alan [with the screen name that is the embodiment of foolishness]
  • Chastmaster's joining the FB SoF group allowed us to become FB friends.
  • prompted me to see if my Ship login still worked. Wotcha know, it does.
    Wotcha know, we didn't find a reason to ban you in your absence. Welcome back.

    Alan [with the screen name that is the embodiment of foolishness]

    You are, as far as I can remember, the only shipmate who has posted details of their political candidacy here...
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    There are two other Shipmates I can think of who have publicly nailed their political colours to the mast and said that they have stood as a political candidate.

    When vetted by the party I did, of course, tell them about my activity here. I don't consider anything I've posted in my time here to be contrary to the principles or policies of the party I am a member of (the same would be true of what I've posted on Facebook, I've never understood the attraction of X/Twitter or any other short form text/image/video form of social media ... I generally prefer the freedom of using lots of words).
  • In my pre-retirement RL I was a grants officer dealing with scholars and literary types-- both featured accomplished figures with chips on their shoulders and a nodding acquaintance with instability and exaggerated discourse. I tried to hedge my comments on ecclesiastical and national politics to make them as cryptic as I could, but the odds were that I could be identified, with consequences to my work.

    I had imagined that as a menial, I would be spared such attention, but was warned that the menial were even more vulnerable. So therefore the shipname.
  • Wotcha know, we didn't find a reason to ban you in your absence. Welcome back.

    Alan

    How kind 😊
  • ZappaZappa Shipmate
    his post there prompted me to see if my Ship login still worked. Wotcha know, it does.

    Excellent

    welcome back, good sir

  • Zappa wrote: »

    welcome back, good sir

    How kind 😊

  • Miffy wrote: »
    I did try to contact you a while ago, Priscilla on FB with ID in case you thought I was a dodgy Internet person, but if you’re prone to hacking prob good that no response.🫤
    Please try again !
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Priscilla wrote: »
    Miffy wrote: »
    I did try to contact you a while ago, Priscilla on FB with ID in case you thought I was a dodgy Internet person, but if you’re prone to hacking prob good that no response.🫤
    Please try again !

    Just PM’d you on board Ship…

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