in reply to RFC: Purpose of Robes in Monasteries

A couple of thoughts:

I had the idea of separating new monks as Guest User and only signed in members would have an option of posting as Anonymous Monk.

We could then award a certain number of Anonymous Monk posts to members based on their XP level on a per day/week basis. So for example, if you're at level 5 you would have five Anonymous Monk posts available to you per day/week.

As for Guest posts we could limit those to a certain number per visit (maybe 3). To prevent users from working around this system, if they post those three times as a Guest the number would be deducted from their available Anonymous Monk posts the next time they login.

I don't think this would "fix" Anonymous Monk but maybe by putting a limit on how many times we can post as Anonymous Monk, the handful who abuse it — may — think more carefully about throwing away a post.

I've argued against Anonymous Monk (although not 'banishing' him/her altogether). I do think it plays a valuable part here but maybe with some adjustments it could be made better.


"...the adversities born of well-placed thoughts should be considered mercies rather than misfortunes." — Don Quixote
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Re^2: RFC: Purpose of Robes in Monasteries
by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 24, 2011 at 12:57 UTC

    Which problem(s) with Anonymous Monk are you trying to solve? And why do you think separating guest account and AnonMonk would do anything except adding confusion?