To be or not to be... anonymous
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    Who was that masked man anyways? Anonymous blog comments make for intense conversations focused on the merits of hot topics. They also for violent, obscene mud-slinging.

    MSJ blogger Rob Mentzer writes about the issue of anonymous comments, concluding that the free-for-all of the Web does more good than bad:

    The best things about blogs are that they are immediate, individual and responsive. That’s why good blogs don’t have editors, and that’s why I think comments should be mediated as little as possible.

    Unsurprisingly, there’s a nice little conversation in the comments of that post. I’ve always felt that anonymity lets me be bolder in my comments; and everyone is allowed of course to post anonymously on this blog. But I’ve also seen many comment threads overrun with spam, vulgarity and hatred (*cough* YouTube), and understand the need to sometimes moderate comments.

    What say you, commenters?

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