WA Grand Finalists - Storm The Stage

Daniel Kershaw wrote:
> I wish the 'anonymous' feature on this website would be taken off.
> All it does is cause problems. It doesn't envoke free, unmediated speech
> like it was designed to. Instead it give free range to defamation and more
> importantly stupidity.
>
> Grant, could it be possible to disable this option if there was enough
> support?

All things are possible although I would prefer they were supported by informed debate rather than a knee-jerk reaction to an occasional post.

I quickly reviewed the last 100 comments from unregistered users.

Characteristion of anonymous postings as all causing problems is entirely inaccurate. It fails to do justice to contributions like the following from Andy Fraser:

http://www.theatre.asn.au/comment/reply/26101/29003

and may be construed as ingratitude by at least one anonymous supporter of yours:

http://www.theatre.asn.au/comment/reply/25857/29151

Nor does registration offer the protections that some people think it might - as evidenced by the few hundred private messages generated by our registered spammers from the Seychelles and more publicly by the vituperative "Vixen" a few months back.

All unmoderated discussion boards run the risk that they might be used inappapropriately or illegally - regardless of whether contributors are registered or not. People contributing defamatory, illegal or unauthorised content can be tracked down whether registered or not.

Stupidity and spelling mistakes are not the exclusive domain of unregistered users.

Cheers
Grant

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