But why would you want to exlude the only reply you'll sometimes get to one of your nodes? As well as the useful replies to your alogorithms? Don't forget interesting links provided for other questions. There's also some good insight for search engine implementation, along with information about peace of mind.

Perhaps you don't like the idea of having an anonymous person ranting against you in certain nodes, and the odd straightforward reply that shoots down one of your ideas or they're bluntly honest when they see things differently. Or the ones where someone anonymous asks you to explain your original post further.

As an alternative crazy idea, I'd suggest that a node should be automatically deleted from the database if it DOESN'T get an anonymous reply within 48 hours. Just because the anonymous answers are often either just as good or perhaps even better than replies made by known monks. Of course, I'm not really offering that suggestion, that one's even sillier.

Would you mind explaining *why* you'd have gotten such an idea in your head? Next you'll be asking for a feature where you can block specific users from replying to your nodes?? 

List of users to block from replying:
(separate entries with commas (ie: "artist, Coruscate")
<input type="text" name="block" size="50" />

In reply to Re: No Anonymous Reply Option by Coruscate
in thread No Anonymous Reply Option by artist

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