Weblog:		I'm not doing it anymore - forget it!
Subject:		Right to be anonymous..??
Date:		2008-05-15 16:32:23
From:		Michael EacrettBusiness Card
Hi Craig, I think people have the right to be anonymous in most cases. There are a number of reasons for this. Some possibly being... People seem, in my opinion, to have a built in concern about asking what might be perceived as the "stupid question". If being anonymous alleviates this, then I'm all for it. There are no stupid questions asked if there has been a base level of research done before asking. Right? Also I guess an alias can be quite fun to use a fake or made-up name... just look at the WOW online community. Maybe SDN should have avatars too! Now that would a lot of fun! Would you need a consultant to do heavy customizing?? But I digress... However, as you have experienced…. If an anonymous person wants a person's help, then I think it acceptable to request that the anonymity is dropped. After all it is a person request and should be that - a person to person request. Also anonymous flames that we occasionally see in forums are, in my opinion, no better than spam and should be treated this way….deleted. We are all adults here, right? Just my $0.02. (which is worth even less in Europe!) Mike (yes, my real name... we can't easily be anonymous on SDN if you work for SAP!)

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• Right to be anonymous..??
  2008-05-15 23:22:40 Thomas Würcher Business Card [Reply]
  
  Hi, Mike!

  
  My feeling is that since anonymous access to SDN is possible, the quality of the questions as well as answers posted in the forums has decreased significantly.

  
  And the time one spends on searching posts in case of a problem has increased in the same way.

  
  So, as I consider this to be a business forum with professionals using it for professional reasons, I also see no reason to continue permitting anonymous access with these negative side effects.

  
  Regards,
  Thomas

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