Would you still participate if it wasn't anonymous?

[Anonymous]

Let's say you had to register with a screen name for DCUM. It wouldn't have to be your real name, but people would get to know that 'Maplesyrup' is always mean to other people and not pay so much attention to them. Would you still participate?

I'm getting fedup with the meanness here and I've been coming here close to 10 years.

[Anonymous]

No. Especially since you can click on the person‘s profile and see the history of posts. I feel like you lose anonymity that way if someone who knows you recognizes a pattern. Paranoid, maybe but that’s my two cents.

[Anonymous]

Nope. And I can be mean sometimes, but try to be helpful. If it's too mean for you, just find another forum.

[Anonymous]

I would less.

I’d make a new profile often.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would less.

I’d make a new profile often.

+1

[Anonymous]

no

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

No. DCUM will be out of business.

[Anonymous]

Look at the soccer forum, it's just a few guys talking to each other. Being anonymous but still a source of good information without loads of spam or insults is what makes this board.

[Anonymous]

No. But I would love it if each user was assigned a random number for each thread so we know who is OP and who is posting multiple times.

No need to track people from thread to thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. But I would love it if each user was assigned a random number for each thread so we know who is OP and who is posting multiple times.

No need to track people from thread to thread.

I think this would be a helpful feature within a thread.

[Anonymous]

No. I am reporting posts more for being mean/pointlessly rude etc though

[Anonymous]

Sure. In my experience people are equally rude on sites that require registration and people can develop beefs and just go after each other constantly.

[Anonymous]

Jeff has already A/B tested this.

Engagement rates would plummet. Look what happened with the Explicit forum (RIP) when Jeff decided to force people to have an account to post there. The engagement dropped off a cliff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. But I would love it if each user was assigned a random number for each thread so we know who is OP and who is posting multiple times.

No need to track people from thread to thread.

I would leave if that happened.

Anonymity is that entire point, and it’s important within and across threads.