rniles - 9:57 pm on Jul 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

I've found that the strong the no-anonymity policy on a board, the higher the quality of its discussion.

Enforcing such a policy requires you to take certain steps in your registration process, however. (No posting w/o registration, verified e-mail addresses, etc.) But, short of requiring a credit card number when registering, there's no foolproof way of verifying that a registrant is whom he says he is. And even the credit card isn't 100 percent, unfortunately. But asking people to play under these rules usually does result in over 90 percent compliance. And critical mass takes it from there.

[edited by: jatar_k at 5:09 pm (utc) on July 25, 2006]
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