{"id":254871,"date":"2023-02-09T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=254512"},"modified":"2023-02-09T10:45:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:45:03","slug":"anonymous-coward-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/02\/09\/anonymous-coward-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous coward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I caught sight of this at the Globe and Mail site &#8212; the words &#8220;anonymous coward&#8221; in the header after I logged in &#8212; and it made me laugh. This is a term I stole from Slashdot when I was helping to design the Globe&#8217;s social strategy back in 2008 or so. My idea was that there would be a kind of tier system for users who joined the Globe, so they could &#8220;level up&#8221; the way one does in video games, by providing more information about themselves so that we could create a kind of social network. One of the perks of being a member was that you could use your real name. Until then, you were an &#8220;anonymous coward&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-101.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254513\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught sight of this at the Globe and Mail site &#8212; the words &#8220;anonymous coward&#8221; in the header after I logged in &#8212; and it made me laugh. This is a term I stole from Slashdot when I was helping to design the Globe&#8217;s social strategy back in 2008 or so. My idea was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/02\/09\/anonymous-coward-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anonymous coward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}