IMO, anonymity serves 3 purposes:
1. allows the person who hasn't signed in to post (I'd like to think this is the main reason, but...)
2. it makes flaming easier
3. allows dissenting opinions to avoid down-votes

I would suggest there are many more reasons. Signed participation may have been curbed for work related reasons. A monk may just wish to opt out of the XP system and participate in a content-only fashion and anonymity is the only way to achieve that. A monk may be trying merely to add some signal to anonymity. Those are just couple of additional reasons off the top of my head, I am sure there are a number of others.

But lets ask a different question. Why do some people take such issue with anonymity? I suspect one reason, perhaps the main reason, that some monks come to dislike anonymity so much is that deep down, underneath everything else, they really want their downvotes to count against an individual and not just against a particular node! That also explains why the only reason they can think of for anonymity is to hide from just such a retribution.

In reply to Re: Re: Why anonymous ;-? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Why anonymous ;-? by pg

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