> When I'm listening to someone's opinion, I'd like to know more about them, so I can decide for myself how seriously to take it. This outlook is alien to me.

> When I'm listening to someone's opinion, I'd like to know more about them, so I can decide for myself how seriously to take it. This outlook is alien to me. I'm quite the opposite; I'm happy reading and judging anonymous comments purely on the strength of the argument being made there and then (although I don't ignore the background and history of a commenter when that is available to me). Not attacking your point of view; just very interesting to see an approach described so different to mine.