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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Real names

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:matrix: Revolutions always started with hidden faces.

Uncovering the true identety is certainly a way to calm people down. A law in Switzerland wants to forbid the use of hood on demonstrations. It's a way of getting discussion to a mainstream level.

What is considered as a danger in the street should not be implemented in a independent forum. Anyway, the trouble maker will always be banned on this forum and this doesn't take much time.

I am conviced that a free society has to take the risk of free speach and free opinions even if they can represent a danger for the society it self, with or without hidden faces.

Patrick Tresch
Switzerand


PS1: As a child I was facinated by ZORRO!:matrix:

PS2: Next step : put the ID foto of the user

PS3: I always signed "tresch" do I have to change anything?
 
Wow, I go away from here and come back and the real names policy has finally been put in place. Thank you RED team, this has been long overdue.
 
Ok... Jarred's tired of changing all of the names, I think. :)

You guys can pm me for your name changes.

Later,
Jason
 
nutman said:
Funny thing, the VFX and 3D animation community knows me as nutman for over a decade and I had that nickname attached to me since 3rd grade because it is the litteral translation of my surname in English.... I always fix people's grammar to make it readable
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BTW, "literal" is spelled with only one "T"..heheh


Jaadgy is pronounced "JAH-JEE"
 
What if your screen name is your company name, but not your personal name (as in my case)?
 
we'd like to know too jarred..sent you a PM yesterday
 
I wholeheartedly support this idea Jarred. We don't hide our identity from people we interact with in the real world so why should anyone feel it is necessary to do it here?

My experience has been that forums who require real names tend to be infinitely more respectful. To that end, the most respectful message board I have ever been a member of required both your real name and a real picture of your mug. Im not sure Reduser wants to take it that far but you'd be amazed at how the tone changes when you could easily be spotted out at NAB for being an ass.
 
I notice Mark of OffHollywood was able to change his "member status" (under your name) to his company name...can we do this or is that some special moderator treat?
 
Haskell said:
I notice Mark of OffHollywood was able to change his "member status" (under your name) to his company name...can we do this or is that some special moderator treat?
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First!

You Must find me a Shrubbery! one thats nice, not to expensive...


then get back to Jarred
 
On balance, it's sure to improve the quality of the discussion, but real names will also have at least one unintended consequence: there will be even fewer actual writer/directors coming here, as opposed to the tech and producing side. And that means even fewer people in the community who actually know cinema.

To take the example everyone recognizes and appreciates, David Mullen's post are an extension of his work and posting under his own name gives the information a value and reliability it couldn't otherwise have. But it's also true that David doesn't have to worry that a discussion of anamorphic distortion or Pro Mist filters is going to damage his career.

But a writer/director, even an obscure one, who has to go out begging for money and kissing industry ass, is unlikely to post forthrightly here on sensitive subjects under his own name. That may be all to the good, reducing discussions which are largely irrelevant to Red technology. But that absence may also diminish the community. Don't know to what extent anyone cares or remembers, but that phantom "jpp" has said things here about the American independent film establishment which, believe it or not, can't be found anywhere else in print or on the web, at least not to the best of my knowledge. For whatever those posts may be worth, anonymity made them possible.

And I'd take it one step further: far from discouraging this kind of participation with real names, I wish Red would actually hire a few such people, to put the "cinema" back into Red Digital Cinema, and do what companies like Apple, Sony, Panny, the Sundance Institute and the major studios have never done and will never do: lose a million or two a year on feature films not dependent on the approval of the usual indie suspects -- in other words, a cinema which originates with filmmakers, rather than producers and investors.

But that's a pipe dream. Anyway, it was fun here while it lasted....
 
C.H.Haskell said:
I notice Mark of OffHollywood was able to change his "member status" (under your name) to his company name...can we do this or is that some special moderator treat?
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Thats an advertiser treat :)
 
I like real names... but i am sure going to miss out on the freedom i had as akube. lol.
 
jpp has a point.
Double accounts sounds like the only solution but that is usually frowned upon...
Unless RED grants a second account on a case by case basis. (which sounds ok)
Bear in mind an admin or moderator can find all accounts that use the same IP.
So at the first sign of abuse they can ban you on the spot.
But that means more work for Jarred and firends....

As for the financing thing, I have an idea we can discuss in some other thread if you like.
Let me know.
 
limeyx said:
Maybe it's his "porn" Name :)
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Spot on!!!

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:) Peter
 
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