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Old 09-09-2015, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Abby10 View Post
Personally, I think they should allow for a trial run with names revealed while they are working on the site. It may provide some valuable feedback as to whether that would be the best way to proceed from this point or not. Seems to me the posts with names revealed were pretty civil. Maybe it would scare off the usual name caller's, repetitious posts, etc? Wishful thinking?
It would be wishful thinking. The Political Forum was up for the 2012 election and had the screen names of posters. It got real nasty. If a liberal posted a disagreement, he/she would be ganged up on by several conservative posters. Name calling like stupid, brain dead, moron, etc were not allowed, of course, but it got very mean spirited.

This anonymous method really does not have any value either. There is no real discussion but is just conservatives pitted against liberals (or vice versa) and some really mean spirited vile name calling from both sides.