Anonymous Posts - Yes or No

[Chris Eastwood]

Some idiot has been posting complete rubbish to the board as responses to peoples questions. Not only is this misleading, it's also dragging down the quality of the posts on this board (something I'm not prepared to let happen).

I have the ability to disable Anonymous posts - what does everyone think ?


Chris Eastwood

CodeGuru - the website for developers
http://codeguru.developer.com/vb

[Nick A.]

Yes, disable them.

Personally i can't find any reason for allowing anonymous posts.

[Crazy D]

I agree, disable anonymous. Of course some anonymous postings were good, but then, they could easily have signed up and login with a username. (although I love the Anonymous Coward that slashdot uses :-)

Crazy D :-)
"One ring rules them all"

[Ravi Kiran]

sometimes people may feel "silly or stupid" to ask a question, but they must ask never the less to get the info/answer. Just for that case, Anonymous is good. But if it giving problems, like you mentioned, then it may be a good case for scrapping.

Couple of occasions people had problems with loging in....

RK

[Lothar Haensler]

Please disable anonymous posts.
I don't see any reason for them.
People can use fantasy names if they are "shy".

[Kyle Burns]

I'm for turning Anonymous posting off. It takes no time at all to sign up on the board and allows you to feel like someone will actually get your reply when you reply to a post.

[Crazy D]

Funny that none of the anonymous users reply.... :-)

Crazy D :-)
"One ring rules them all"

[AndyK]

I'm with you too, if they really want to post a message, then there should be no problem spending 1-2 mins on creating new ID for this great forum

[gknierim]

Get rid of them!! I always like to see who is helping me solve my problems!!

[Johnny101]

I also think that anonmyous posts should not be allowed. It's nothing against them, I like the idea of popping out to ask a question real quick. But most of the time, they probably dont event get our replies, since they can't be notified of them. And that is a waste of board space.

John

John Pirkey
MCSD
www.ShallowWaterSystems.com

[The Matrix]

let me just say it this way

if anonymus posts = true then
'kill "c:\anonymus.exe"
else
'get rid of anonymus
end if

MY LONELY FRIEND....I WOULD NOT BE POSTING ANONYMOUS IF IT DIDN'T HAVE AN ERROR WHEN I TRIED TO SIGN UP SO THAT MEANS I HAVE TO POST ANONYMOUS. I AM SORRY ABOUT THE ANONYMOUS.

[AndyK]

IE5 should do it....