[SPOILERS] Blut und Eisen: Deutsche Einigungskriege

[spacetyrantxenu]

Also, hi there whoever you are out there reading along using a proxy server....Unless you're at work enjoying some light reading instead of doing work, or live under a repressive government regime GO AWAY.

[Qgqqqqq]

You give new meaning to the phrase "grudge war"

[Qgqqqqq]

Also, hi there whoever you are out there reading along using a proxy server....Unless you're at work enjoying some light reading instead of doing work, or live under a repressive government regime GO AWAY.

Uhh, could have been me? I have no idea how any of these things work, though, so I certainly haven't set one up myself.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Also, hi there whoever you are out there reading along using a proxy server....Unless you're at work enjoying some light reading instead of doing work, or live under a repressive government regime GO AWAY.

Uhh, could have been me? I have no idea how any of these things work, though, so I certainly haven't set one up myself.

It wasn't you. It isn't something that accidentally happens.

[Cornflakes]

Thanks for your updates!

[MindyMcCready]

Also, hi there whoever you are out there reading along using a proxy server....Unless you're at work enjoying some light reading instead of doing work, or live under a repressive government regime GO AWAY.

Proxy server,....you're probably blaming some poor Canadian who just wants US Netflix.

[spacetyrantxenu]

I could be, but why don't they log in?

[MindyMcCready]

I could be, but why don't they log in?

Yeah, I don't know. It wasn't a serious reply. Alot of Canadians are starting to do this to get the UK and US content, though.

I haven't gotten through my Canadian Netflix content yet,...when the day comes I might know more about this stuff.

And um, no offense, but they can't be lurking your thread for how to win PB18. :LOL:

[spacetyrantxenu]

And um, no offense, but they can't be lurking your thread for how to win PB18. :LOL:

I'm not bothered by anonymous Internet users who may or may not be browsing the Internet at large through a proxy server --more power to them. As long as the proxy service isn't sucking up their browsing history and tracking them they're probably more private browsing the Internet that way than non-proxied users are, as everything we do on the Internet can be tracked and data-mined by who knows how many entities along the network path between our devices and the servers hosting the content we seek. I'm all for increasing one's own security, and especially for thumbing one's nose at governments, etc., who would block access to any kind of content that should be by all rights free and available to anyone. Basically, fuck off goes for the government of China, NSA, and anyone else (many Internet companies) who loves to harvest user data. Wanting to avoid all those kinds of privacy ignoring agencies is a good thing!

What I am troubled by here is the prospect that there could be players reading threads on this forum that they shouldn't be reading, as rival players, dedlurkers, etc. There's no effective way to prove that a guest is 100% definitely some other game player when their proxies work correctly (heh, unless I run the proxy! ) and they effectively hide their identity, but I'm paranoid enough to believe almost anything is possible. I'd rather not get into specifics, because fair and open reporting is what makes our forum so interesting to lurk. These games are built on trust in the other players, trusting that they'll play fairly and do the right thing when it comes to things that can't be controlled for exploitative gain. So we have few measures we can really take when it comes to protecting players who choose to expose their game information by being really great reporters in these games. For example, in a hypothetical situation if I'm posting detailed reports every turn and a rival I'm fighting isn't, and we were both unethical bastards and were surreptitiously reading each others' game threads, one of us would have a turn by turn information advantage on the other and should be able to win an otherwise even contest based solely on that information advantage. That isn't the way anyone here would voluntarily play, but we all really do play with that as a possibility, that our rivals could be reading our threads. We all kind of accept that's a possibility but either don't really think too much about it, don't care much about it, or (best case!) have enough trust and faith in our fellow players that they aren't cheating to gain advantage in a silly computer game. I'd like to think that what makes our community so fun to participate in is that the third possibility (i.e., the prevalence of fair play) is what predominantly happens around here.

With all that said, that's what brings me back around to the threat of a proxied guest user reading threads. Yes, there's no way to 100% identify dedicated cheaters, but really, fuck those guys anyway. My point is mostly that if someone is interested enough in our games to browse this forum regularly and they didn't happen to make it to my thread by some freak Act of Google Search, go ahead and register for an RB account and browse logged in as your regular (not smurf!) user account. Proxies are good, they can protect us from asshole outside agencies who like to consume user data. But proxies plus browsing the forum anonymously makes me (as a player, not as an admin) wonder if the person is hiding from Big Brother or from fellow players. And that thought is chilling, because if it makes me less interested in filing timely game reports, who else is a less diligent game reporter because of the same kinds of concerns? And if I may engage the slippery slope fallacy here, if everyone reduces posting for that (or any other) reason, we wouldn't really have much interesting content to read, and there goes the neighborhood. Ergo, browsing around as a proxied guest is anti-town, so proxied guest should hang.

[Qgqqqqq]

But proxied users aren't the real threat. They don't have any killing power, and they have, by definition, no voting powers. Why are you trying to focus the town on them, Xenu?