I hate to be so disparaging, but this has to be one of the worst ideas I've seen thrown around here. Anonymity is part of the reason you have such intelligent

I hate to be so disparaging, but this has to be one of the worst ideas I've seen thrown around here. Anonymity is part of the reason you have such intelligent and verbose conversations. At the end of the day it's up to the reader to assert the meaning and usefulness of what they are digesting. If some sort of a helper guide is needed for you to determine the validly of someone's words, then I suggest you go about trying to think a little more critically. I don't want some pre-disposed criteria affecting the conversation that's made HN a staple of my daily reading for well over the last year. In fact, it goes against everything HN and the start-up scene stands for. Hacker News is where the future known commodities of this world come to cut their teeth and get their 'education'. Just because someone hasn't made it, or hasn't promoted themselves to the point of becoming a 'household' name doesn't mean they don't have wise or intelligent words to type. Lastly, some of the suggestions calling for people to be labeled based on one thing or another.. couple that with some of the legislation that's been getting introduced in the UK/US/FR and extrapolate that out of a little further.. What kind of society do you want to live in?