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Get Rid of Anonymous Posters!

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Get Rid of Anonymous Posters!

Keep bloggers accountable

from JoeUser Forums
Recently, Draginol managed to ban anonymous posting from users in the thread "Do Democrats Hate America?".

I'm hoping Draginol will follow suit in making certain all threads are free from anonymous users who often do little more then:

* Spam

* Are actually spam bots

* Disrupt JU citizen discussion with random insult and trolling
(making people register takes more time, commitment, and increases the likelyhood of them actually being a contributing member to the JU community)

* Or are actually registered users doubling as anonymous to escape accountability

Eliminating the ability to post anonymously will bring an already high quality site up another notch. Please petition the site Administrators to expand the anonymous posting ban to all threads so no one has to suffer spam bots and unaccountable trolls.

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
And of course, there are some registered users who can't figure out how to use the quote feature.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
I guess the most annoying troll has been an anonymous poster who has taken it upon him / herself to hound me with cut'n'paste whenever posting on someone else's blog who does not restrict themselves to only registered users.

I don't want to ask every maintainer of each and every blog whom I post on to please change their settings at my behest. Because of the behaviour of this poster, I am effectively being curtailed from posting freely without the anon's idiotic, often off- topic cut and paste antics derived from 'The Matrix', 'Billy Madison', and any Bush speech.

What is most annoying is the incredible lack of effort shamelessly displayed by the poster. Only one other poster has called 'Obsession' or 'Frodo' on his conduct.

This poster has reached 'Sir Peter Maxwell' annoyance status. Any help from the JU community would be greatly appreciated.
Siege of Centauri
Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
And of course, there are some registered users who can't figure out how to use the quote feature. - Iconoclast

I don't like to use the big ugly yellow JU boxes for automatic quotation. I prefer the svelte italics journalists use when quoting others.

I do a lot of quoting of sources and when I used to use the quotation feature at JU, my posts were sometimes accused of 'hijacking' threads because of the sheer amount of space they would consume.




Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
Something must have changed since the new forum layout.

I go to 'tools', 'edit', then three tabs; 'contents', 'options', and 'previews' show up, but none of them have an option to change to only registered users.


Go to the old JU blog page click edit on your article and sort it from there. It wont work in the forums edit page. (leastways do not think so)