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Anonymity often encourages trolls to come along and inject horrible comments as it is, allowing posting without creating an account would just lower the barrier
by Bahamut 13y ago
Anonymity often encourages trolls to come along and inject horrible comments as it is, allowing posting without creating an account would just lower the barrier to such posts - it's not fun for a moderator to have to deal with that (I've dealt with such for about 12 years now).
- krapp 13y agoYou could require creating an account and posting through it, but still not show that account to other users. Although then trolls might just create new accounts. It's not an easy problem to solve.
- astrange 13y agoPeople are happy to leave horrible comments whether or not they're anonymous, have a pseudonym, or are using their Facebook account. What's important is if there's an active community encouraging them to do something better. (This is different from just stopping them from doing bad things.)