Anonymity seems to be a tradition on PerlMonks. Perhaps the question of whether PerlMonks wants to change that tradition should be discussed before discussing a change to posting procedure.

Requiring anonmyous monks to read the node every time they posted just means they have to go to the node. How are you going to ensure that the node was read? It would be easy enough to scroll to the bottom of the node (or wherever) and hit the 'I read it' button without paying any attention to the information in the node at all.

It is rather hard to force people to do things anonymously. They will cooperate or not but only if they want to. Forcing the issue brings us back to the question of whether to have anonymity at all.

xenchu the dim (ie. dimwit)

Well, 'splain it to me!

In reply to Re^3: Methods For Better Questions by dimwit
in thread Methods For Better Questions by madbombX

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