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Originally posted by Sledge
Being able to post anonymously is no more acceptable than walking around in public with a paper bag over your head.
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With all due respect, I think that's rubbish. It's hard to conceal your identity in public, but much easier to do so on the net. Why do you think text messaging became so popular? It's because it gave the people a degree of anonymity (sp?). Email is personalised, posting to this forum with your name attached is personalised, but posting to a forum you are happy with and feel a good part of the community, yet have a very embaressing issue that you really don't want to be identified with but need advice for should be anonymous.
Sure, it would be a possible method of abuse, so: Restrict it to one forum only, restrict it to people who have a set number of posts (IIRC this is already in place on tilted exhibition - the forum doesn't even appear until you have a set number of posts - do the same!), and have the software keep a non-visible log of who posted what. Anyone abusing it would get banned, but, as it would be those who had been around for a while and had contributed, they would hopefully treat the forum with the due respect.