For those of you still studying for finals:

AnonCon has reached over 6000 confessions & comments and is now at Part II:
http://community.livejournal.com/ucb_anoncon/564.html?page=1#comments

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Hello!

Anoncon has moved to its own community: http://community.livejournal.com/ucb_anoncon

All IP tracking has been turned off and whatnot. Come on over, and post away!

UCB Anoncon chat:
http://irc.ocf.berkeley.edu/ucblj

So, since the mods decided (understandably) to cancel anoncon this year, we're stuck without it over here. However, some of us miss it. For this reason, I created an unofficial anoncon post over at calblather. Here it is: Anoncon!

Mods, please lemme know if this isn't cool and I'll delete it.

EDIT: Due to the unmodded issues with the calblather post, there is now a new community, ucb_anoncon. The calblather post will be friendslocked to prevent further anonymous posting there, but membership is open, so you can join if you want to read it!

The pettiness, meanness, and bitterness we've seen in the last few incarnations has just been escalating and it's turning (turned) into a festering slime pool of suck that's doing more to disenfranchise students than to make them feel a part of a wider community. This may be due to a vocal minority, but they're the ones dominating the experience.

By consensus, we (the moderators) have decided that we won't be doing it this semester. I'm sure this decision will be controversial - lauded by some, condemned by others - but it's ultimately what we believe is best for this humble little livejournal community. Right or wrong, popular or unpopular, there won't be an 'official' AnonCon this term.

Feel free to browse the previous AnonCon entries, feel free to reach down and grab your pair and talk to that cutie you've had goo-goo eyes for, feel free to do those things you wished you had done, and feel free to prepare for finals. Get off the computer and go live.

I'm sure it's been mentioned before: http://www.juicycampus.com

Figures it'd turn into a frat row pissing contest. Although I'll have to thank the site for helping me discover the wonder that is Kendall Clifford.

Is still going on.

Plumpkin, jhs, others! Come on out to Strada.

IMPORTANT: Part 5 posted early due to this entry about IP tracking. Since mods cannot edit entries posted by other users besides deleting the entry, it is strongly encouraged that you post here (unless you feel comfortable with the IP tracking). In general, please be careful on the internet!

Got a confession? Have a secret? An embarrassing phobia? Well, you can put it here. Be sure to post anonymously and honestly. Post more than once if you'd like.

The basic rules:

• Post anonymously.
• Post honestly.
• Post about yourself. Don't dime out others.
• If you leave a comment, be respectful.

Anonymous commenting has been turned on and IP logging has been turned off for a couple of weeks.

Agree with something someone said. Let 'em know. It's nice to be heard.

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Seen here before: Facebook Group: I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me
Previous Semesters: Spring 07 (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3), Fall 06 (Part 1 and Part 2), Spring 06 (Part 1 & Part 2), Fall 05, Spring 05,
(More things AnonCon)

THE FINE PRINT: Don't be stupid. Don't use this opportunity to insult, attack or disparage other people (particularly by name). It's mean and often undeserved. It also spoils the entire thread and the experience for everyone else.

Part IV!?! This is madness!

Got a confession? Have a secret? An embarrassing phobia? Well, you can put it here. Be sure to post anonymously and honestly. Post more than once if you'd like.

The basic rules:

• Post anonymously.
• Post honestly.
• Post about yourself. Don't dime out others.
• If you leave a comment, be respectful.

Anonymous commenting has been turned on and IP logging has been turned off for a couple of weeks.

Agree with something someone said. Let 'em know. It's nice to be heard.

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Seen here before: Facebook Group: I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me
Current Semester: Fall 07 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
Previous Semesters: Spring 07 (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, Fall 06 (Part 1 and Part 2), Spring 06 (Part 1 & Part 2), Fall 05, Spring 05,
(More things AnonCon)

THE FINE PRINT: Don't be stupid. Don't use this opportunity to insult, attack or disparage other people (particularly by name). It's mean and often undeserved. It also spoils the entire thread and the experience for everyone else.

Because someone asked for them... here ya go

Updates every 5 minutes. I'll need to manually change over if we go to Part IV, but yeah, tada...



(Posts per Minute with a 60-minute rolling average window)

(And minutes in Minutes Since 12/14/07 at 4:00 AM)

EDIT: Graph will continue without a hitch. Ties together post counts from parts III and IV.

For the curious, the changeover happened at t = 1387 -- for what it's worth.

Part III

Got a confession? Have a secret? An embarrassing phobia? Well, you can put it here. Be sure to post anonymously and honestly. Post more than once if you'd like.

The basic rules:

• Post anonymously.
• Post honestly.
• Post about yourself. Don't dime out others.
• If you leave a comment, be respectful.

Anonymous commenting has been turned on and IP logging has been turned off for a couple of weeks.

Agree with something someone said. Let 'em know. It's nice to be heard.

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Seen here before: Facebook Group: I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me
Current Semester: Fall 07 (Part 1, Part 2)
Previous Semesters: Spring 07 (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, Fall 06 (Part 1 and Part 2), Spring 06 (Part 1 & Part 2), Fall 05, Spring 05,
(More things AnonCon)

THE FINE PRINT: Don't be stupid. Don't use this opportunity to insult, attack or disparage other people (particularly by name). It's mean and often undeserved. It also spoils the entire thread and the experience for everyone else.

Part II

Got a confession? Have a secret? An embarrassing phobia? Well, you can put it here. Be sure to post anonymously and honestly. Post more than once if you'd like.

The basic rules:

• Post anonymously.
• Post honestly.
• Post about yourself. Don't dime out others.
• If you leave a comment, be respectful.

Anonymous commenting has been turned on and IP logging has been turned off for a couple of weeks.

Agree with something someone said. Let 'em know. It's nice to be heard.

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Seen here before: Facebook Group: I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me
Current Semester: Fall 07 ( Part I )
Previous Semesters: Spring 07 (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, Fall 06 (Part 1 and Part 2), Spring 06 (Part 1 & Part 2), Fall 05, Spring 05,
(More things AnonCon)

THE FINE PRINT: Don't be stupid. Don't use this opportunity to insult, attack or disparage other people (particularly by name). It's mean and often undeserved. It also spoils the entire thread and the experience for everyone else.

Got a confession? Have a secret? An embarrassing phobia? Well, you can put it here. Be sure to post anonymously and honestly. Post more than once if you'd like.

The basic rules:

• Post anonymously.
• Post honestly.
• Post about yourself. Don't dime out others.
• If you leave a comment, be respectful.

Anonymous commenting has been turned on and IP logging has been turned off for a couple of weeks.

Agree with something someone said. Let 'em know. It's nice to be heard.

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Seen here before: Facebook Group: I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me
Previous Semesters: Spring 07 (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, Fall 06 (Part 1 and Part 2), Spring 06 (Part 1 & Part 2), Fall 05, Spring 05,
(More things AnonCon)

THE FINE PRINT: Don't be stupid. Don't use this opportunity to insult, attack or disparage other people (particularly by name). It's mean and often undeserved. It also spoils the entire thread and the experience for everyone else.

Pictures!





Come on out, have coffee, have tarts and cookies!

lastquestion, rvrssciociosnan, gompers, unrevenant, zestyping, zuckussi, chasingred, peaceoutforlife, angeliquestratt, and others are here! Say hi!

UPDATE:

Plumpkin revealed! Find out by coming to anonconcon!


UPDATE:

Moving to Raleigh's!

Anonymous Confessions Part THREE!!!
(Because apparently people have alot of crap they want to get off their chest)

For the first time in Anoncon history, we've hit over 10,000 comments!

Continued from Part One and Part Two.

You know the rules, now get to (anonymous) confessing!


Seen here before: Facebook Group: I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me
Previous Semesters: Fall 06 (Part 1 and Part 2), Spring 06 (Part 1 & Part 2), Fall 05, Spring 05
(More things AnonCon)

THE FINE PRINT: Don't be stupid. Don't use this opportunity to insult, attack or disparage other people (particularly by name). It's mean and often undeserved. It also spoils the entire thread and the experience for everyone else. Plus those posts have a tendancy for smiting.

Not as dynamic as last time (last time it updated every 10 minutes!) but this one is annotated.

Here's the progress of Part 1 of the anoncon, as measured in Posts/Minute with a 2-hour moving average to make it readable.

I pointed out the interesting times of local maxima/minima



Click for a full-size image

Anonymous Confessions Part Deux

Continued from Part 1


The basic rules:

• Post anonymously.
• Post honestly.
• Post about yourself. Don't dime out others.
• If you leave a comment, be respectful.

Anonymous commenting has been turned on and IP logging has been turned off for a couple of weeks (or until the moderators get bored, whichever comes first).

Post anything you want about yourself here. No repurcussions, no judgements, just let it out.

Got a confession? Have a secret? An embarassing phobia? A story? Hook up with that cutie at Anon-o-Con-o-Con but didn't wanna tell anybody? Well, you can put it here (anonymously).

Agree with something someone said. Let 'em know. It's nice to be heard.

Seen here before: Facebook Group: I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me
Previous Semesters: Fall 06 (Part 1 and Part 2), Spring 06 (Part 1 & Part 2), Fall 05, Spring 05
(More things AnonCon)

Subject: ANON CON CHAT!!!T
go to http://ircatwork.com/
nick: choose one
server= screwdriver.csua.berkeley.edu
channel= #anoncon

THE FINE PRINT: Don't be stupid. Don't use this opportunity to insult, attack or disparage other people (particularly by name). It's mean and often undeserved. It also spoils the entire thread and the experience for everyone else. Plus those posts have a tendancy for smitin

Anoncon used to be about confessions, sincere confessions. Now its just meanspirited attacks on fellow LJers and racist remarks about Blacks and Asians. And of course there are the million posts about Ragnus.

Let's call the new thread Anonyawn since there are only three confessions for every thirty random pointless posts. There is too much stuff to wade through. Now I see why the mods wanted to do something to regulate it. There is nothing worthwhile there anymore. Anyone here from the 2005 year? Remember how awesome those confessions were? Sure you might think "I miss my ex-boyfriend" and "I'm crying cause I'm going to fail Physics" wasn't as exciting as "RAGNUS RAGNUS RAGNUS I HATE NI66ARS AND LASTQUESTION IS A QUEERZ," but I actually thought it expressed a common experience all of us 22,000 undergrads at Berkeley were going through, which made me feel closer to UC Berkeley than anything else the campus has offered. Now Anoncon just makes me feel like I go to school with a bunch of high school assholes.

What once seemed like a great tradition that brought many UC Berk students together has now turned into a meanspirited flame war with fake confessions, trolling, attacks on ethnic groups and LJers, and pointless posts about Ragnus. Thanks to the few people who have turned an awesome Berkeley version of Group Hug into something that demonstrates how ugly people can get once anonymity is conferred.

Seriously, stop calling it Anoncon cause there aren't any confessions on there anymore.

Edit: I see the mods have put up the official Anoncon. My rant above was about lastquestion's anoncon community. Hopefully the official Anoncon will be different.

Anonymous Confessions has returned.

The basic rules:

• Post anonymously.
• Post honestly.
• Post about yourself. Don't dime out others.
• If you leave a comment, be respectful.

Anonymous commenting has been turned on and IP logging has been turned off for a couple of weeks (or until the moderators get bored, whichever comes first).

Post anything you want about yourself here. No repurcussions, no judgements, just let it out.

Got a confession? Have a secret? An embarassing phobia? A story? Hook up with that cutie at Anon-o-Con-o-Con but didn't wanna tell anybody? Well, you can put it here (anonymously).

Agree with something someone said. Let 'em know. It's nice to be heard.

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Subject: ANON CON CHAT!!!
The more the merrier!
If you're bored, come chat!!! Share you innermost confessions. Or something.
http://www.teenchat.com/chat (yeah, it's cheesy, but it was easy and convenient!)
Make up a username. The room name is AnonCon
See you there!

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Seen here before: Facebook Group: I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me
Previous Semesters: Fall 06 (Part 1 and Part 2), Spring 06 (Part 1 & Part 2), Fall 05, Spring 05
(More things AnonCon)

THE FINE PRINT: Don't be stupid. Don't use this opportunity to insult, attack or disparage other people (particularly by name). It's mean and often undeserved. It also spoils the entire thread and the experience for everyone else. Plus those posts have a tendancy for smiting.

So the main anoncon thread is pretty dead... I couldn't get this idea out of my head so I wrote it down as a commemoration of this year's anoncon (with links where appropriate and easily findable).

To the tune of The Major-General's Song, by Gilbert and Sullivan

And so we see the end of yet another year's Anon-O-Con
(a corruption of risingdragon's phrase which is quite frowned upon)
Where we find a way through finals in which we procrastinate
And cookie girl teaches all of us how we can Rasterbate

And cookie girl teaches all of us how we can Rasterbate
And cookie girl teaches all of us how we can Rasterbate
And cookie girl teaches all of us how we can Raster-rasterbate!

You can have a crush on GSIs or on vivalarevalex
Or post on all the naughty things you wish you could do to your ex
It's at this time that trolls can post with rules that are the freest
As long as you are not one of those dirty dirty atheists

As long as you are not one of those dirty dirty atheists
As long as you are not one of those dirty dirty atheists
As long as you are not one of those dirty dirty dirty atheists

You can look for love or just a fuck or maybe friends with benefits
Or expound on how much you like your (or others') set of tits.
Drunk driving's bad (mmkay?) and those with bad roommates get sympathy
Just hope the mods crack down on ragnus and the troll community!

Just hope the mods crack down on ragnus and the troll community!
Just hope the mods crack down on ragnus and the troll community!
Just hope the mods crack down on ragnus and the troll communi-munity!

Anonconcon is where we meet and talk about our normal lives
With laptops on hand to post back to LJ and search the archives
As people leave remaining geeks seek warmth and food quite happily
And krypticnight lets everyone play Katamari Damacy!

And krypticnight lets everyone play Katamari Damacy!
And krypticnight lets everyone play Katamari Damacy!
And krypticnight lets everyone play Katamari Dama-damashiii!


*bows*

Reporting live from the anonconcon...

krypticnight, unspooling, ebonyandsnow,gompers, zestyping and I are all here, and we've seen a few people come and go.

People should join us! It's fun! Look for the binder-paper sign that reads "LiveJournal AnonConCon"

Update @ 5:00: Cookie Girl is here!

Hacking around...
So I'm procrastinating a bunch... You can watch the anoncon thread grow on a pretty graph. Should update roughly every 10 minutes.
This is really a hack, but should be pretty stable for now.

Brought to you by perl, awk, sed, bash, wget, gnuplot, cron, ImageMagick, yours truly, the letter B, the number 6 and the CSUA.

Now with a 10-minute updated derivative chart! (With a rolling average over an hour)

And the 0 - minute is about 2:20 AM on 12/12.  For reference, 600 is then about 12:20 PM on Tuesday and 1200 is about 10:20 PM on Tuesday.

**UPDATE: 12/18 -- I've shut it down. This is the final graph -- there's been no appreciable activity to watch.

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UPDATE 12/21/06
Anonymous comments have been disabled and IP logging restored. Thanks for playing!

You are still welcome to participate, but, it'll have to be non-anonymously. :0)

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ANON-O-CON 2K6, the Sequel

(VOLUME TWO)!

Let the tumultuous mess of human catharsis begin continue!!

"Post anything you want here. Be it a confession, story, phobias, secrets, whatever. But post anonymously and honestly. Be respectful." Play nicely with others.

If you're not going to be respectful, have the 'nads not to be anonymous (though, nonymity, provides no intrinsic defense from moderator smiting deletion)

• Take a chance and share something about yourself (as in, don't air someone else's dirty laundry).
• Do you do something so weird, so strange, so deviant that nobody else could possibly relate (are you sure? you might be surprised!)
• Maybe share an update to your confession from a previous semester (so did you hook up with the cutie/hawtie you were crushing on???).
• Got something you've always wanted to say, but have been too embarrassed to say in public?
  
  
  
• Don't berate, insult, attack, or disparage other people (especially by name). It's mean and often ill deserved. It also sours the entire thread and experience for everyone else, and mods smite those types of posts.
  
• Rules sometimes sux. So do assholes. Smite buttons gravitate towards assholes. We don't know understand how that works, but simply recognize that it happens.
  
  

Previously seen:
Anon-O-Con 2K6, the Sequel (Volume One)
Facebook Group: I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me
Previous Semesters: Spring 06 (Part 1 & Part 2), Fall 05, Spring 05
(More things Anon-o-Con)

Hear ye, hear ye,

Let the tumultuous mess of human catharsis begin!

"Post anything you want here. Be it a confession, story, phobias, secrets, whatever. But post anonymously and honestly. And be respectful." [sic]

This time around, though, perhaps focus a bit more on the positive... or, at least, saucy confessions. Did you make a confession in the past? Tell us what you posted and give us an update on how things have worked out. Did you hook up with your dorm mate, after all? Or end up really jumping off of Evans? And did those naked pictures of your mom you put on the internet help support your drug habit throughout the term, like you thought they would? Share something new! Be nice! Give love!

Happy holidays

Also, just to keep things all happy and nice and pertinent, the moderators request the following:

• Try to keep the confessions, well, personal. Something about you and your life. Not just "CaL RuLeS StanFURD dR00ls!" or "I hate ________".
  
• Don't berate, insult, attack, or disparage other people (especially by name). It's mean and often ill deserved. It also sours the entire thread and experience for everyone else.
  
• In general, try not to be offensive. We hate deleting posts, but we hate even more when people are dicks. It makes baby jesus cry. Don't make baby jesus cry.
  

Thanks mypaganpoetry, oh benevolent father and provider of all that is ucberkeleyish, for the suggested additions.

ZOMG, the official Facebook group! If it's not on Facebook, it didn't really happen!

Spring 2k6 AnonCon

Fall 2k5 AnonCon

Spring 2k5 AnonCon



P.S. Some posters are of the opinion that the Freshmen here won't possibly be able to figure out what this post is about. Personally, I give you lovable bunch of little sea urchins a lot more credit than that. But if you've got a picture of Corky from Life Goes On stapled to your wall - the hero you aspire to someday be, let me spell it out: THIS IS A THREAD WHERE YOU CAN POST ... GET THIS ... ANONYMOUS CONFESSIONS. Ya. I know, the title above was pretty hard to figure out, but there ya go. What's an anonymous confession, you might ask? Well. It's a sort of confession - our friends at Merriam Webster would say 'a written or oral acknowledgment of guilt by a party of an offense', but we can be more casual about it and just say that it's something that you've been dwelling on and you want to get off of your chest. And, here's the clincher, it's anonymous. As in, we won't have any idea who you are. (Unless you're like me and have a recognizable writing style where everyone seems to get some sort of visceral glee out of pointing out my posts to me.) Two words. Deep meaning. Anonymous Confession. On your marks, get set... GO!

You're still not here yet? AnonConCon '06 has met, and so many people showed that we've cleared out and occupied an entire section at Strada.

And we're still going, so if you're not here yet, come on down and join the party!

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8:00pm: If you haven't shown up yet, well, there's always next semester! :0)

(well, because it reached the maximum number of comments)

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UPDATE 05/19/06 8:00pm
Anonymous comments have been disabled and IP logging restored. Thanks for playing!

You are still welcome to participate, but, it'll have to be non-anonymously. :0)

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It's the Second Anonymous Confession thread!!!
(Pshaw. What were you gonna do, study?!?)

Post anything you want here. Be it a confession, story, phobias, secrets, love letters, whatever. But post anonymously and post honestly. And if you reply to any particular one, be respectful.

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Hitting your Refresh button and there's nothing new to read? Well, you could:

• take a look at the previous two three ucberkeley Anonymous Confession threads (plus this one at calblather).
• check out the confessions at grouphug.us, Not Proud, AnonymousConfession.com, WTF?! forums or ljsecret.
• try to figure out who posted what at the "I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me" Facebook group.
• and for the truly sadomasochistic, realize Mark T.A.W. says that this link is A Complete Waste of Time (WARNING: Do Not Read This If You Have Work to Do!!!!!!!!! (though I'm partial myself to Space Penguin game myself)).

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qweltor adds: "Oh, hey, something I wanted to mention. Y'know that 'anonymous community member' who, way back when, suggested to the mods that we do an Anonymous Confession thread? That was me.   :::waves:::   Sorry, about that. Okay, I'm gonna go "study" now."

Counting since
12May06 12:56 PDT

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Today marks the end of classes and, for many, the beginning of much procrastination. So, by popular demand, I present to you the anonymous confessions thread for this semester.

Go wild!

Anonymous posting is enabled, IP logging is off. That's right, folks. It's that time of year again.

Spill your guts! Go go go!

Hey Community,

Your friendly neighborhood moderator here. First of all thanks to an "anonymous" (how apropos) community member for this idea.

Who's up for a diversion from finals?

Anonymous Confessions Time!

Post anything you want here. Be it a confession, story, phobias, secrets, whatever. But post anonymously and honestly. And if you reply to any particular one, be respectful.

Note: I’ll enable anonymous posting for about two weeks, if you stumble onto this thread afterwards, you’re going to have to confess without the shield of anonymity.


For ideas go to:

Postsecret Blog

Similar Thread in Oberlin Community


Edit: Join the I Posted On That anonymous Confessions Thing, Now Guess Which One Was Me facebook group!