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Subject says it all. I can't post this in the explicit forum obviously, with the new username policy.

The decision to go to usernames only was made quickly and I wonder if anyone regrets it.

I understand there was some anonymous trolling that was upsetting some of the people with usernames.

But whereas most of DCUM is a clearing house for hundreds or thousands of opinions on a topic, the explicit forum is now just the same 20 people talking in a chat room (for which there are many other available options on the internet).

Previously it was fun to imagine that the person posting in explicit was the same person posting in the schools and other forums, whereas now I have the distinct impression that the explicit forum is its own world and there's little overlap between it and the rest of DCUM (not zero, but little).

There are many people who are uninterested in the exposure of a username but who might want to post the occasional experience buried in an active thread. After all, the main selling point of DCUM has always been that it has long attracted the kind of people who would not be caught dead in the usual online chat room, who would never have their own blog, who would never make their facebook posts public. Basically professional people with reputations to protect who aren't interested in having an online avatar/personality but are willing to post anonymously.

I guess maybe Jeff will move my post to website feedback but I posted it here because I figure there are some people in this forum who can relate. I have noticed that previously, if someone had a borderline-explicit topic they would err on the side of posting in explicit, whereas now they will err on the side of posting in non-explicit. This, added to the drop in traffic in explicit, is a sign that many of the posters in the explicit forum have left. The result is that the explicit forum used to have threads that were interesting with a mix of non-explicit commentary and NSFW language. Whereas now those types of threads take place in non-explicit with people censoring their language, and most threads in the explicit forum read like a transcript of a 1-900 phone call.

Ok, that is what I wanted to say. Curious to hear what other people think.  
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