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10/02/11(Sun)14:37 No.30206154>Registration keeps out good posters.
>Imagine an expert with a job related to the subject of your forum. They see something stupid, and want to debunk it. But registration requires time. People with lives will tend to ignore forums with a registration process.
>Registration lets in bad posters.
>People with no life will thrive on your forum. Children and Internet addicts tend to have free time to go register an account and check their e-mail for the confirmation message. They will generally make your forum a waste of bandwidth.
>Registration attracts trolls. If someone is interested in destroying a forum, a registration process only adds to the excitement of a challenge. You could argue that a lack of registration will just let "anyone" post, but of course, they already can. Registration is a speedbump of effort, not an actual barrier. There is effectively an unlimited number of free email addresses.
>Anonymity counters vanity. On a forum where registration is required, or even where people give themselves names, a clique is developed of the elite users, and posts deal as much with who you are as what you are posting. On an anonymous forum, if you can't tell who posts what, the substance of a post overrules vanity. As Hiroyuki, the administrator of 2ch, writes:
>>If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time have a veneer of authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say "it's boring" if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work. |
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