thoughts on anonymity

[krait]

Someone just created a kinkmeme for a small fandom I've long been a fan of, though never written in.

Why, you may ask, is that sentence not followed by an exclamation point?

The creator(s) have made the meme mandatorily anon-only.

This has happened with at least one other kinkmeme for a small(ish) fandom I'm part of, and I found that it somehow puts me off. I've thought about it several times, and I can't exactly pin down why I dislike it, aside from It's probably a combination of laziness and lack of shame. I may have come to better conclusions in the past, but right now I am sleep deprived and under-caffeinated, so I cannot recall them or re-think them out. (Insert cat macro here: "I thunk yu guyz sum meta, but I forgetted it"?)

I'm 100% for people having the right to be anonymous on the internet, and that includes kinkmemes! But being told that I have to be anonymous results in serious levels of Do Not Want.

Am I the only person in the universe who has this reaction to mandatory-anon policies? Is there someone out there who has the ability to prod my grey matter and figure out why this irks me?


Thoughts, anyone?

Comments

[blnchflr]

I got out of the habit of making icons. At one point we all made half-crappy icons, but now it's like everyone uses smart icons by artistes - I don't like the look of my half-crappy icons anymore, lol.

[krait]

Hey, you're still one up on me!

I never had the habit of making icons -- I laboriously made the one I use all the time by scanning something I drew, and... that's it. The beginning and end of my iconmaking. :D (Okay, I drew+scanned two.) I have no photoshop skills at all, and no photoshop-esque program to use them on even if I had them, so my "icon making" never developed.

[blnchflr]

Hey, you got it right in take one :o)

If you ever want a photoshop-esque program, I highly recommend the open-source GIMP (Windows .exe).

If you've never worked with layers before, it's a new world, but also with many more possibilities than MS Paint etc. offers.

There's a GIMP comm on DW, gimp_gate - I've made a couple of tutorials that might get you started on how GIMP works:

How-to: Simple text shadow in GIMP
How-to: Creating an icon similar to this, *points to icon*, in Gimp

I like to think my tutorial skills are better than my icon-making skills, at least :oD