Unregistered people can also type a name, see Gratis but I think the most are to lazy to type it everytime... ;)

Why should he? There is no need to track people on the boards, in the most cases the people don´t post illegal crap or the mods edit them...

Its much easier for the RIAA to track the people within Gnutella...

Morgwen

The funny thing is all of you who have raised a big stink over this have caused a sort of "its about principal" thing, and lots of people are now posting as unregistered.

Now it's all about principal. Before it wasn't, it was just people being lazy.

Thanks!

In that case... Cows can't use computers yet. Just being on Gateway commercials. So don't worry about that then :D

Scary, oooooo!!!!!!!
 

It's an other medical term for it and that is Schizo Paranoia LOL :D :cool:

great, this topic has been decided. I can_t post in general gnutella anymore. good then I do not need to come back anymore. :(

Not this topic... we discussed this for some weeks now.

Morgwen

I haven't seen much if any flaming in the development forum. And it's pretty light in the general forum too, so I don't think this is the reason, I think it's ursula and Swede dislike of people who don't conform to the "norm", whatever that is.
Now I can't post suggestions or help in the development forum anymore, thanks.
I see flaming from "registered normal people" in the closed BS forums all the time, is this going to stop that?
Bad decision guys, even slashdot accepts anon posts and it has more traffic than here.
You may want to look for a different technical way to solve this problem, if it is a real problem that is.

We discussed about this long before Ursula joined...

And the MOST mods voted for this...

about your statement that unregistered people flame in the bearshare forum, yes because the bearshare forum was closed some time ago for unregistred users... (at least two months)!

So now we think why you don´t see flaming in these forums... perhaps a mod edited already or deleted/moved the thread? Are you 24 hours around to say how the situation is?

A yes IF a registered members flames here, we can ban them what should we do with unregistered users?

All suggestions are welcome...

Morgwen

Sorry Morg, I am not pointing my discontent directly at you, you are one of the best and most patient mods I have seen here other than CycloCide.
I think you meant "registered users" above?
And you have me there, about the deleting of posts, but I thought you only edited posts and deleted them rarely. I have seen where a post is marked "unappropriate post" or something like that, and I don't see many of those in the general forum. So I still wonder what the actual motivation was.
Ursula lost her cool, Swede shows up and also happens to hate Unregistered posters and now this happens, very good timing I think.
I think you should look at the way that other larger places handle the flame war problem, such as slashdot, but keep anon posts available.
It's your choice.

(and oh my god! We are having a dialog! How can that be?)

So the main point for me, is that in registering for various sites and services, my spam email accounts (yahoo.com and hotmail.com) now receive 170 emails a week that I have to delete (I've long since past the 255 blocked addresses) in order to stay below the 5mb max.

Not only is this annoying and potentially dangerous (pseudo-real subject lines on messages that conatin viruses), but it defeats the purpose of being notified of replies to my messages.

Not registering is not about anonymity -- you will notice that non-registrants' IPs are logged. Registration is just a pain in the butt, especially for anyone with only one or two things to say.

If the moderators would have posted a sticky that says that unregistered guests can enter a nickname to distinguish them, the confusion would have been less.


Again, I was pleased that unregistered users were allowed in these forums. However, now, apparently, unregistered users are no longer allowed to post in the main forum. I do browse these forums a lot so I broke down and registered.

Look what I can do! And this too!

• or this
• or even this!!

hehe


Gratis

Oop and even this:

I hope I don't get any junk mail for registering here.