Exactly. You can't, imo, usefully abstract login/anonymity from the context of what the site is. Is it a chatty forum, like hn? A wiki has somewhat objective or

Exactly. You can't, imo, usefully abstract login/anonymity from the context of what the site is. Is it a chatty forum, like hn? A wiki has somewhat objective or predefined goals. That legibility helps frame things and flame wars need to resolve somehow. When a discussion thread on a forum erupts into flamewar, we just move on. No resolution is necessary except perhaps preventing the next flame war.