Re: Having our anonymous cake and eating it too

If I marked this post (the one I'm writing now) as disallowing anonymous replies, then Anonymous Monk would still be able to reply to the points I've made - they'd just have to click "reply" under the top node, or under Corion's node.

All this change would achieve would be to break threading, and make long discussions on this site less readable.

use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name

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Re^2: Having our anonymous cake and eating it too by ww (Archbishop) on Jan 23, 2014 at 13:32 UTC
You could NOT "mark this post" under pemungkah's proposal. It's NOT an OP, whereas the proposal says "only the first node in a new thread would have the option of setting this characteristic." Come, let us reason together: Spirit of the Monastery	[reply]
Re^3: Having our anonymous cake and eating it too by tobyink (Canon) on Jan 23, 2014 at 13:56 UTC
That's just a question of granularity. My point is that it wouldn't stop Anonymous Monk from replying to anybody's messages (they could just post a new top-level node), but it would just stop them from being threaded in the correct place. `use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name`	[reply]
Re^4: Having our anonymous cake and eating it too by ww (Archbishop) on Jan 23, 2014 at 14:01 UTC
True, but would making snide comments (or giving good advice/insights/code) in a node at the head of a new thread -- ie, a new OP, if I understand you correctly) offer AM the same gratification. I suspect that the workaround you've pointed out would NOT be attractive to the trolls... and less than useful to those who post valuable information, anonymously. Update: Amusingly, I got a 'tough beans' message when I tried to "Create" -- maybe the Monastery would be better off if whatever glitch caused that occured more often. Come, let us reason together: Spirit of the Monastery	[reply]
Re^3: Having our anonymous cake and eating it too by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 23, 2014 at 13:42 UTC
Then the Anonymous Monk could reply to the owner of the thread in a different thread where he would not be the author... لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]
Re^4: Having our anonymous cake and eating it too by ww (Archbishop) on Jan 23, 2014 at 13:52 UTC
I guess our understandings of the OP (and/or the meaning of "thread") vary. Come, let us reason together: Spirit of the Monastery	[reply]