1. I can see objections about signing names due to concerns about search engines checking for entered comments. I'd find it more appropriate for sites other than this (a member of a company fearing retaliation), but there are legitimate reasons. If you want to get into really unfun reasons, a stalker, knowing that someone participated in quizbowl, could find a name and cross-reference it with a university - email and web site searches can be very good, and opting out to make the revealing of personal information harder should be a legitimate choice. It's remote, but it's a possibility that should not be discounted. 2. There's something to be said about impressions. I've posted enough to this forum to influence people's opinions of what I write. Anonymity allows those opinions to be wiped clean and for points that might otherwise be pushed away to be made. The caveat to this is that I feel that most people won't take posts/flames from an unknown account as seriously as posts from a known (or signed) one. As this is an open forum, people also might post without knowing "the rules" - should their posts be cleared? I'l agree that anonymity allows people to write their flame graffiti without fear of reprisal, and that it's annoying. But anonymity has its place. Hayden Hurst
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