Re: Anonymous postings

Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> Mon, 21 October 2013 21:57 UTC

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On 10/21/13 1:37 PM, l.wood@surrey.ac.uk wrote:
> A persistent identifier is helpful in sustained shared multiparty
> conversation; whether it represents a "real" person or not does not
> matter.

Right, this is clearly a problem as stated, but there's a long
history of people posting from and participating from those
addresses, while the other is some individual whose only posts
were ad hominem.  So what's of interest here probably isn't
anon-/pseudonymity, but some sort of reputation or track record.

Melinda