Washingtonpost.com Wants Identities of Posters

mytrip recommends a News.com account of a panel discussion in which the Washington Post's online executive editor Jim Brady argued against anonymity on his site. He's welcome to try to carve out a space for civilized discourse, but it seems that he can't help alienating the Net-savvy whenever he opens his mouth to speak of it. "... he would like to see a technology that could identify people who violate site standards — and if need be — automatically kick them off for good. ... Brady also lamented that closing user accounts doesn't keep bad eggs off a site. They just come back and create new ones ... Brady believes that in the next five years people will be required to identify themselves in some way at many sites. 'I don't know whether we do it with a credit card number, a driver's license or passport ...'"

Comments

Re:Good for the gander

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah--they'll just go back to the "Making shit up" school of journalism." I thought that was the NY Times?

Re:Not everyone has figured out user moderation

[Brett Buck]

>Funny enough, I think Slashdot has the
>most effective and elegant
>user-moderation system I've seen. Sure,
>it's not 100% perfect, but more times
>than not, the random trolls and other
>crap are already modded out of my
>viewing range by the time I get to an
>article.

        You have a bit of a point in terms of trolling, etc. BUT, Slashdot has developed a *hyper*-liberal monoculture, where people moderate to death anything that doesn't meet the party line - valid or not.

          Brett

Re:hehe

[Jane Q. Public]

It was "self-deprecating humor"!! Jesus, take a joke! Actually, I don't even know why I bothered to respond except to educate, you clueless SOB.