Sadly, some of us do like to discuss politics. But this political forum is nothing but bickering and insulting. I find it difficult to believe that anyone with even an iota of intelligence truly believes some of the comments that have been made in the political forum and, if they do believe the bigoted, mysoginistic, hyperbolic hated they've spewed, they deserve to be outed.

At the very least, give each "guest" a number so that we can tell which guest has said what. Probably the best way is have members sign in with a new identity with no options to send private messages.

Heh. So I guess you haven't experienced or read about the long-standing technical issues. Much easier to avoid that long list of places you mentioned than to avoid the political forum on ToTV.

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Hi, a lot of books especially fiction are written by authors with Pen Names not real names.

Mark Twain was Samuel Clemens.

It seems that the Political Forum does get a bit raunchy, best to just glance at it and move on.

A huge pro study was done years ago about large Homeowners groups, yes we have one here, the results???

1. 30 percent of the folks are very nice and real congenial to live around.
2. 30 percent have never accomplished anything in life and want to give it their last fling, dominate someone or find fault only.
3. 30 percent did something productive in life and cannot give it up to be the boss at home.

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I am familiar. I am also familiar with the fact that any username can be seen on mobile devices.

There is an old saying - "Your opinion of me is none of my business". The fact is, on the internet...I dont care. Even more so...in life for the most part I dont care.

I never hardly ever ask "How are you?" to a stranger. Fact is, I dont care. Worst case scenario someone tells me. Friends and family, that is another story.

I have learned in The Villages (and to steal from the Clemens quote)...

30% of the people want to tell you how to live your life
30% of the people are better than you, and cant wait to tell you.
30% of the people are lost, dont know their own name or where they were going to (or from)
30% of the rest are complaining about the others
.00001% of the people matter even a little bit in the grand scheme of my life

Yes, the numbers overlap as some of the people fall into multiple criteria.

I haven't tried it today, but the last time I hit the 'Hide Classifieds' button, it got rid of classifieds but all the 'guest' posts suddenly appeared and I'm not even subscribed to that forum.

Since that forum can only be aggravation for the moderators, to keep it around must be because of financial reasons. I suspect it increases the website traffic count, which in turn increases the amount one can charge advertisers. This is just a guess, I don't have any proof.

I also agree with those who think making comments while hiding the screen names does nothing for exchanging ideas. To exchange ideas will only occur if the posters names are attached. However, that would probably decrease usage, which would decrease traffic count.