the first is merely policy, the second is censorship/discrimination/icky
Considering that the first is far more restrictive than the second, (not allowed to reply at all, vs not allowed to reply sometimes), I find this highly peculiar.

OTOH, so what? Slapping "censorship" or "discrimination" onto something is easy, and shows you really are from now. But if disallowing anonymous replies in certain threads is "censorship" or "discrimination", what is considering notes then? What about the actions of Nodereaper? What about not frontpaging a node that's about "how to enjoy cranberry sauce in your sex games"? What about not answering CGI or Windows related questions? And, when it comes to non-perlmonks examples, what about running a spam filter? Or a firewall? Those could easily be labelled as "censorship" and "discrimination" as well, but so what?

Abigail

In reply to Re: No Anonymous Reply Option by Abigail-II
in thread No Anonymous Reply Option by artist

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