Unfortunately, we've had quite a rash of empty or otherwise-pointless categorized answers submitted by Anonymous Monk.

So, from now on, you must be logged in if you want to add a categorized answer to Categorized Questions and Answers.

I would prefer to allow anonymous contributions to Cat Q+A, but the lack of feedback channels to Anonymous Monk has proved to be a problem.

BTW, please familiarize yourself with the purpose of Cat Q+A before adding either answers or questions there. It is not meant for discussions nor for subtle side issues. It is meant to hold simple, frequently-asked questions and simple, best-practice answers. It is fine to include pointers to more in-depth discussions, especially as part of a simple, best-practices answer, but in this section "clear" is more important than "complete".

- tye        

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Re: No more anonymous categorized answers
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Oct 30, 2004 at 14:45 UTC
    tye,
    I am not sure how to intepret you must be logged in if you want to add a categorized answer to ... and ... allow anonymous contributions to .... The first one is explicit - direct answers. The second one would appear to be any contribution (replies to answers). I haven't looked at the patch myself, but it appears not to prohibit the latter - see this as an example.

    Cheers - L~R

      Followups to answers, which is what you pointed out here are not Q&A Answers, and don't even appear on the Q&A answer page. You have to select a particular answer before you will even know that it has a followup. Many Q&A Answers have followups, usually offering corrections or additional information, but by in large, those followups can be ignored by the casual reader. QandAEditors sometimes use these followups to rework official answers.

      anonymous contributions are currently not possible for Categorized Questions and Answers, but followups to answers are possible.


      Dave