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Bad idea for lots of reasons: Anonymity breeds vandalism. Enforcement becomes impossible. How would you ban or suspend an offender? Allowing unregistered users to post is an obvious gaping hole...
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#2: Post edited
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Olin Lathrop
·
2022-02-06T18:46:06Z (about 2 years ago)
- Bad idea for lots of reasons:<ol>
- <li>Anonymity breeds vandalism.
- <li>Enforcement becomes impossible. How would you ban or suspend an offender?
- <li>Allowing unregistered users to post is an obvious gaping hole for suspended users.
- <li>Someone who knows there won't be any consequences is more likely to do bad things.
- </ol>
- Bad idea for lots of reasons:<ol>
- <li>Anonymity breeds vandalism.
- <li>Enforcement becomes impossible. How would you ban or suspend an offender?
- <li>Allowing unregistered users to post is an obvious gaping hole for suspended users.
- <li>Someone who knows there won't be any consequences is more likely to do bad things.
- <li>Writing a good question requires some thought and care. Compared to that, logging in is trivial. We don't want the kind of questions that are written the second a thought pops into someone's head, while banging on a cell phone with lots of distractions going on around them.
- </ol>
#1: Initial revision
by
Olin Lathrop
·
2022-02-06T14:40:30Z (about 2 years ago)
Bad idea for lots of reasons:<ol> <li>Anonymity breeds vandalism. <li>Enforcement becomes impossible. How would you ban or suspend an offender? <li>Allowing unregistered users to post is an obvious gaping hole for suspended users. <li>Someone who knows there won't be any consequences is more likely to do bad things. </ol>