Re: "Please, log in ..."

[chacham]

Though i wish people would post under their normal handles, the idea of removing or even restricting is so anathema to me that proposing to encourage it already makes me cautious. We have to work with people, not against them. If they want to post anonymously, so be it. (It'll be blocked when required, as it has was done Oct 14-20.)

Related nodes could be more easily linked, but that does require finding it, which can take a few clicks. If anything, i'd address finding and linking nodes to address the problem more directly.

[Anonymous Monk]

I wonder how many "anonymous monks" were too focused on the content and didn't notice a switch from perlmonks.org to perlmonks.com ?

It does seem rather easy to accidentally post as anonymous.

Perhaps, when the session context is "not logged in", the "create" button could instead be labeled "post anonymously"?

[Anonymous Monk]

Excellent idea!

[sundialsvc4]

Being aware of such opposition to the notion of restricting our Anonymous friend, I am not here suggesting that.

I see, here recently, many “valuable, but Anonymous,” posts, and entire threads ... which, I suggest, become quite a bit less valuable, just by being anonymous and un-owned.   Someone snapped-off a valuable suggestion, fortunately did not make any tpyos while doing it, deserved kudos but will never get them.   Referred to “my” previous post on a subject but we have no idea who “my” is, and so on.   So, I’m just expressing the sentiment that, yes, it does make a positive difference when you take the time to Log In.   (And to preview your post one last time, to be sure that you are still logged-in.)   That it’s beneficial that you took those extra few seconds.