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Anonymous:

--- Quote ---*for example, when bringing up subject matter that is better not coming from a specific personality, or slanderous posts against the criminal scum. also, i have noticed more than once that someone talking about suicide wants to be anonymous. for this reason alone the anon feature should remain as is. i think a lot of survivors have a hard time getting help when suicidal because of the Baker act or whatever similar thing in their state might get them locked up and a lot of us probably are more terrified of being locked up than the average person.
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A very good point. I wouldn't have seen it either- it just so happened that I decided to scroll back..............

Anonymous:

--- Quote ---On 2005-03-22 05:30:00, formerly known as wrote:

*for example, when bringing up subject matter that is better not coming from a specific personality, or slanderous posts against the criminal scum. also, i have noticed more than once that someone talking about suicide wants to be anonymous. for this reason alone the anon feature should remain as is. i think a lot of survivors have a hard time getting help when suicidal because of the Baker act or whatever similar thing in their state might get them locked up and a lot of us probably are more terrified of being locked up than the average person."

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Maybe you could just tie together all the anon posts on the same thread that are from the same IP address.

As a matter of interest, what proportion of posts come from fixed IP addresses and what proportion come from people like me who are still in the age of steam?

Antigen:
Oh, I wouldn't even venture a guess and don't feel like counting.
All thinking men are atheists.
--Ernest Hemingway, American author
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Anonymous:
I am against it. It infringes on the right of people to not be identified. I like that you let people choose to post with or without a user name. Better or for worse, but the spamming  of the board is wrong.

Antigen:
Oh, I'm not talking about revealing IPs. Just thinking of providing a link to other posts from the same location.

And it would be totally worthless in some cases, such as dialup accounts where every session comes from a different IP and proxy connections where dozens of different people share the same set of IPs.

Anyway, it was just a thought. It's not looking like such a good idea anymore.

In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.
--Frederic Bastiat
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