"Only PM gives you a completely open input-box attached to every posting"

Nonsense

"Some people around here apparently want “Anonymous Monk” postings to be “accountable” in some way ... presumably(?) so that people who are (presumed to be) “hiding behind Anonymous Monk when they want to vent their spleen” will nevertheless get the negative-XP that they (presumably) “deserve.”"

Since you fundamentally don't seem to understand, despite having seen examples of this in the past in threads you have started, that people can register any name and post whatever they want. Why do you hang on to the belief that having an account makes people somehow accountable? How does this make anyone accountable to anyone here?

"I dunno. Don’t know, don’t really care"

Then why do you keep posting such nonsense several times a year?

"My concerns for “the PerlMonks popularity contest” disappeared years ago, along with any expectation of courtesy.

You seem to feel no accountability for repeatedly spouting technical advice which is proven to be nonsense or even following posting guidelines (as demonstrated by the undocumented edits within this thread). Often you don't show people the "courtesy" of responding to questions people ask you. Yet you continue to post because you don't care what anyone else thinks. People may not be courteous to you if you aren't courteous to them.

"they are also often exceptionally rude"

Yourself included.

"when a session goes-south and a post therefore vanishes into the gloom unfinished but beyond-reach, that is a computer behavior bug that I would like to see changed."

Prove it's a bug, provide a patch, see if your code passes muster. Since you claim to be so keen to improve things around here.

In reply to Re^4: Assigning unique identifiers within a discussion thread to each distinct anonymous commenter by marto
in thread Assigning unique identifiers within a discussion thread to each distinct anonymous commenter by PopeFelix

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