The problem with anonymous cowards is that you don't have a identity. To have a productive conversation people should have a identity, even if they remain anonymous. It's easy to create a false identity in Internet. You can get a new web based email (i.e. hotmail) and access it through an anonymizer proxy. If everybody has the same identity - AC - then you are appealing to the lowest common denominator (at least among your audience). If everybody is the same, you are turning the beauty and diversity of Internet in the stupidness and sameness of the mass communication media. The anonymous re-mailers allow you to discuss without people knowing who you are, but you still have a identity. People could even have different alter egos. Why not I can have a anger and a nice personality? Discussions should be more schizophrenic:-), but in a higher lever. It's easy to be hated, it's easy to be popular. You just have to be with or without the lowest common denominator of your audience. You can insult them, or you can hail them (like you are doing now). It's the same thing that the hosts of TV auditorium people do. Measuring how good your message is by the number of replies you get makes you no different than Geraldo. It also should be easy to create an account. The interface to do it is terrible. The greatest coward is the programmer who did this poor interface:-).
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The problem with anonymous cowards is that you don't have a identity. To have a productive conversation people should have a identity, even if they remain anonymous. It's easy to create a false identity in Internet. You can get a new web based email (i.e. hotmail) and access it through an anonymizer proxy. If everybody has the same identity - AC - then you are appealing to the lowest common denominator (at least among your audience). If everybody is the same, you are turning the beauty and diversity of Internet in the stupidness and sameness of the mass communication media. The anonymous re-mailers allow you to discuss without people knowing who you are, but you still have a identity. People could even have different alter egos. Why not I can have a anger and a nice personality? Discussions should be more schizophrenic :-), but in a higher lever. It's easy to be hated, it's easy to be popular. You just have to be with or without the lowest common denominator of your audience. You can insult them, or you can hail them (like you are doing now). It's the same thing that the hosts of TV auditorium people do. Measuring how good your message is by the number of replies you get makes you no different than Geraldo. It also should be easy to create an account. The interface to do it is terrible. The greatest coward is the programmer who did this poor interface :-).