Your effect on the world.

You logged into the world.

You did whatever it is you do.

You logged out.


You have been doing this off and on for some time now.




Has your presence been good or bad, as far as other residents are concerned?

I challenge everyone not to be liars, self-deprecating, or whiny - just... brutally honest. It's a secret poll.



Consider this your own personal Judgement Day, with yourself as the judge.

It does not appear to actually *be* a poll...

Sorry, I just typed in the poll.

It makes me submit the post first, and I am a bit slow when it comes to typing in the rest. It should be resolved now I think.

I guess I gotta ask...

Do you honestly expect anyone beyond forum-clowns to vote "no"? And half the forum clowns who I suspect will vote no are actually people who do add to the world in a positive way.

Beyond that, you really sorta needed a maybe option. I know a lot of people who probably feel they neither add to nor detract from the world.

All positive, baby.

I think LL should pay me for being teh Aimee.

1. I do expect honesty.

The anonymity of the internet has afforded its users the ability to be honest, at no social cost. The effect is well known; people open up and admit all sorts of things that they never could to a stranger face to face.


2. Had I not 'forced the choice', everyone would vote 'maybe'.


3. If you suspect I'm going to follow this poll with another one in the near future, you are right. If someone doesn't beat me to it. Thus, a point is going to be made.

I already pay you by being teh Kendra.

Expecting honesty about one's own worth is like expecting a bull to admit it's stubborn, in my experience. Who wants to be thoguht of as "harmful to the world"?




And because nobody wants to be thought of as "harmful to the world", they will vote yes for lack of a better option

Darnit, I voted yes before seeing this post.

<ahem>

-=I=- am a special little snowflake, and -=everything=- I do is special and wonderful for everyone who beholds it.

Yay -=ME=-!

Is it really impossible to look at oneself objectively? Doesn't anyone ever have to do self assessments at work?

I am perfectly capable of realizing the way in which people see me and recognizing that it often is not how I see myself.

This isn't complicated. Even if what you say is true, Reitsuki. The results could still prove interesting.....well, assuming any forum poll was worth a durned thing in the first place.

Had we no anonymity, one might be concerned about being seen as 'harmful to the world'. But as it is, who would know?

Perhaps you are right.

But perhaps there is something to be learned from this? I chose the question quite carefully.

I just looked and it was eighteen to zero in favour of "It's a Wonderful Life", so to speak.

It's very hard, actually, in my experience, and from what I was told in the (groan) psyc and sociology classes they force everyone to take in college these days. The results of those self-evaluations are normally *heavily* weighted.

I raise the sarcasm and entropy in the world by 0.1% every time I log in.

I consider that an achievment.