Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27370080-20181115223226/@comment-26388545-20181210170019

This has been an very rare place. Most forums on the internet require registering before you can post. I've been on some forums where you can't post links, pictures or videos until you have been there for a while. So this was a rare and generous place to people who just wanted to ask a question or make a comment. It's too bad that it got so abused.

I prefer registered users only for several reasons. One simple reason is that I know who I'm talking to. I mean, it's rarely the person's real name but that's not the point. When an unlimited amount of people can post as one person it gets very confusing. Sure, they all have different IP addresses but even those change often. So even from the simple relationship perspective, it works better to have a name attached to the words.

Registered users only cuts down on the amount of abuse. If you decide to say something really stupid or really rude there's a trail. Pretty soon people know who they want to avoid. So then it's not just two or three admins looking after things, it's the community. Well that's the whole point of this place, it's a community. So if the community stops responding to a certain person, very quickly it's evident that the person should clean up his act.

I also feel bad for the admins. When someone goes on a juvenile tirade, admins are left babysitting this a forum. It's not like this is a glorious high-paid job. It's not like they don't have better things to do with their time. That lack of thankfulness for this place and the disrespect to EVERY user here bothers me. When someone flies off the handle everyone has to deal with it.

people can still create multiple accounts. You can ban someone and have them show up in a few minutes. However at this point they have to create a new email address every time. Somewhere in that process they hopefully say to themselves, is this really worth it? Guess we'll see what happens.