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Sherry,Thanks for another thoughtful post. I really enjoy reading your blog and enjoy my subscription and daily review of the local community news stories. I also frequent the comments of many (dare I say, most) of the news stories I read. Over time, I've learned to discern some patterns -- in some cases even figuring out who is behind anonymous posts and handles.But I also find the increased trolling in the comment sections troubling. And I don't believe the current solution employed can scale with the scope of the growing problem, particularly for local community publications such as those published by Embarcadero Media.I believe that the future of Embarcadero Media (and its bloggers) in maintaining healthy community discourse is threatened if the model is one of (1) open platform (i.e., no restrictions on the locale of the commenter), (2) staff/blogger/self-moderation, (3) non-registered comments, and (4) preservation of anonymity. I find insufficiently persuasive the argument that some people behave badly even when they use their names or must register, so why aim for accountability. (That is the equivalent of arguing that some people run stop signs, so let's get rid of them.) Although true (some will behave badly), the normative effect of registration is greater accountability (e.g., chronic offenders of normative discourse can have their rights removed). I also find the general \"free speech\" argument unpersuasive -- not all speech is protected speech: you can't yell \"fire\" in the crowded theater, without consequences.As this Pew Research Center survey noted (Web Link\"Anonymity, a key affordance of the early internet, is an element that many in this canvassing attributed to enabling bad behavior and facilitating uncivil discourse\" in shared online spaces.\"\"Most experts predicted that the builders of open social spaces on global communications networks will find it difficult to support positive change in cleaning up\" the real-time exchange of information and sharing of diverse ideologies over the next decade...\"I wouldn't necessarily push against anonymity, as there are often times when the use of a name will stifle important speech (e.g., the classic whistleblower comes to mind). d2c66b5586