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Re: No Anonymous Reply Option

by Abigail-II (Bishop)
on Nov 26, 2003 at 10:52 UTC ( [id://310193]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: No Anonymous Reply Option
in thread No Anonymous Reply Option

You seem confused about the point of this thread and your position about it. It is not about ignoring Anonymous Monk, it is about being able to ban him.
No. Read the first post of this thread again. It isn't about banning anonymous monk from this site.
You are also missing the fact that ignoring Anonymous Monk will do you exactly no good at all in ignoring signed trolls.
Did I say it will? Does it matter? Wearing safety belts does me no good in preventing fire in my house; does that mean there's no point in wearing safety belts?
This means Abigail does not want to prohibit Anonymous Monk posting, because then all trolls will be signed, and she will have achieved the opposite of what she was after in the first place.
Huh?

Abigail

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Re^5: No Anonymous Reply Option
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 26, 2003 at 11:04 UTC
    It isn't about banning anonymous monk from this site.
    Where did I say it is about banning Anonymous Monk from the site entirely? I said it is about banning him; from single threads at the thread creator's discretion, but banning him nonetheless. This is not the same as ignoring him, which means letting him post and but filtering out his nodes.
    Wearing safety belts does me no good in preventing fire in my house; does that mean there's no point in wearing safety belts?
    False analogy. It would fit if wearing safety belts actively increased the likelihood of fire in your house. Abolishing Anonymous Monk is not completely orthogonal to the existence of signed trolls.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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