Re: Having our anonymous cake and eating it too

[…] the consensus has always been either anonymous posting must completely stop forever and the Anonymous Monk be eliminated, or anonymous posting must be left as it is because it is too difficult to do anything about it.

No, that is not the consensus. At least for me, anonymous posting must be left as is because anonymous posting is a feature of this site and really lowers the barrier of entry for asking a question.

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Re^2: Having our anonymous cake and eating it too by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 23, 2014 at 12:12 UTC
anonymous posting must be left as is because anonymous posting ... really lowers the barrier of entry for asking a question That presumes that the only way to keep "the barrier of entry for asking a question" at a desirably low level is to keep anonymous posting as is. I'm pretty sure that's false. We could, for example, implement pemungkah's suggested change -- allow a poster to control whether to allow anonymous responses -- and Anonymous Monk would still be able to post root nodes. Of course, you're right in saying "anonymous posting is a feature of this site". It would be nice to get a more persuasive argument for why it's a good feature, though. :-)	[reply]
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