++, but..

"I think there are better ways of dealing with it. One might be to have the "Create" button changed to "Post anonymously" when not logged in, which I would expect to be enough"

I just tested this by attempting to reply to your post via the .com domain, rather than the .org to which I'm currently logged in. It shows:

You aren't logged in.

Login, Create a new user, or hit "Create" to proceed in posting your node.

And I had to scroll down to see the post and it's associated buttons. Perhaps you're right in so much that there's some more HTML/CSS fu which could be used to make this seem more obvious, though people may still miss it, for example browsing using a text based browser. On a related subject. I use the (poll winning;) Perlmonks blue theme. The site looks a lot different before I log in, so it's much less likely (if not impossible) for me to think I'm logged in when I'm not. I don't think the site has ever logged me out in all the years I posted.

In reply to Re^2: Once again ... is it time to get rid of the Anonymous Monk? by marto
in thread Once again ... is it time to get rid of the Anonymous Monk? by locked_user sundialsvc4

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