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Thanks for the discussion and suggestions. Anonymous comments are very welcome in this forum, and such comments are held in equal regard to logged-in comments.
However, comments prefixed with "I know the moderator very well...", etc. are unwarranted. Either bloggers have an identity and reputation based on their past activities and scores in this site or they are perfectly anonymous.
Bloggers...
more... are free to choose between:
1. Logging in, and maintaining a reputation and score. All readers will judge you on the basis of your past record and history. With the passage of time, many of our Admins/Members are very well-respected in this community and their activities held in high regard, not because of unverifiable claims, but because of their past activity history, which is concrete and available for everyone to see. Their public reputations will only grow in the coming months and years.
2. Anonymous: No reputation or score. Your comments stand alone, on their own merits. Even logged-in members may write anonymously. You may write whatever you want, without the comment affecting your reputation since the identity is not known. You may not make claims of possessing any identity or knowing such and such or contributing some piece of information - these are unverifiable assertions, and have no basis.
@Mr. Rajasekhar & admins: Masked and anonymous users need not be considered bad. Such users have a right to choose to hide their identity. As Admin, you may at any time remove their posts, if they make unverifiable claims, or if such topics are of a personal or disturbing nature.
Hope everyone finds this forum open and fair. There are currently 3 levels of users: guest, member and admin. Logged-in users have a history, guest users don't. All information is open and available for everyone to peruse and judge. All options are available, each option having its own benefits and drawbacks.
(Some argumentative comments in this entry have been removed, so as not to offend the writer or the readers).