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Originally Posted by Halx
Ok, consequences.
You're right, there is no way to develop consequences. The worst I can think of is retaliation. It would be tough to pin down anyone due to the ability to register many accounts.
A design flaw... yes. But is it a gamebreaker?
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Yeah, I think it is. Not that this isn't a very interesting idea... but anarchy on the internet will inevitably lead to more noise and less signal.
Look: let's say I come across your "steal this post" post. You know the first thing I would do? Delete that post and ban you, just to see if it was true. I'm a software guy at heart, and my instinct is going to be to test the system.
But I'm not accountable for that, and you know it. And you, being a human being, get pissed off that you're now banned, you log in as Hal2, you ban me. I come back as ratbastid2 and ban your second account, and lock out your IP address. You get friends to come and flame me for a while, then ban me. And then the forum looks an awful lot like the hundreds of undermoderated trollfests already out there on the internets.
Ben nailed it: in meatspace anarchy, there are consequences to your actions. You're a meat body with a physical location, and there are things that can be physically done to hold you accountable for your actions. That's the only thing that might make it work.