Remove Anon Posters ability

i''ve seen alot of anon posts that were ''mean'' yet held alot of
truth. it would appear that it''s human nature to want anonymity
when speaking such harsh truths (for fear of backlash i''d imagine).
when anon posters talk shit, they end up getting flamed anyway,
so whats the problem?

-eldee
;another space monkey;

Anon posters are a double-edged blade around here. Many times you can find them offering up very good advice or suggestions, other times you can find them speaking harsh truths as eldee pointed out, and other times you can find them just crapping up the board and causing general mayhem. Okay that''s like a triple-edge but whatever. The point is (haha, point - get it? Point? Oh never mind) that the mods have discussed this a heck of a lot, beleive me, and we''ve come up with a lot of ideas to be implemented in the up and coming new forums that will reduce the amount of anon posters posting nothing but crap and bad stuff.

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Drew Sikora
A.K.A. Gaiiden

ICQ #: 70449988
AOLIM: DarkPylat

Blade Edge Software
Staff Member, GDNet
Public Relations, Game Institute

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Online column - Design Corner at Pixelate

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Long live anonymous posters!
That''s how I do some of my posting when I might be wrong.

Create.
Liv Tyler makes a really great elf.

i think you should post a partial hostmask, so we can
at least sense a pattern in the anons who crap up the board..
ie *!*@*-ipt.aol.com
or somethin


-eldee
;another space monkey;

yeah well we don't want the general public to know who anon posters are, otherwise a flamewar started here could easily spill over to a whole lotta people flaming this guy through IP hacks and emails and all that. That would take the flamewar out of our immediate control and just generally make life even more difficult when dealing with those situations.

Rest assured, however, that we can determine who posts anonymously. For instance I could give you the name of the Anon poster above if i wanted to. But he just implicated himself so I'll resist So we can stop Anon posters by emailing them and warning them of IP blocks and whatnot.

It can be a lot of extra work having them around, but like I said, we've come up with a lot of ideas for the new forums that will make handling abusive Anons so much easier.

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Drew Sikora
A.K.A. Gaiiden

ICQ #: 70449988
AOLIM: DarkPylat

Blade Edge Software
Staff Member, GDNet
Public Relations, Game Institute

3-time Contributing author, Game Design Methods , Charles River Media (coming GDC 2002)
Online column - Design Corner at Pixelate

NJ IGDA Chapter - NJ developers unite!! [Chapter Home | Chapter Forum]

(tottaly off-topic!)
Gaiiden, how do you make your signature
so small, what html codes do you use?

[Hugo Ferreira][Positronic Dreams][]

"Research is what I''m doing when I don''t know what I''m doing. "

- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)

If you ever have a question like that you simply click on the "edit" button for the post and check out the code yourself. You''d be amazed at how much you can learn this way

Maybe you should have an option for members to post anonymously and it''ll say ''Anonymous Member'' as the name

No, HTML is not an OO language.

I too have had my fair share of anon poster problems.
I am glad to see that these problems may be resolved.