Posting-password trial on Outside USA

We are experimenting with password-requiring posting on the Outside USA page. To post a message on that page, you first must register a handle. You submit your handle and an email address, and then we email a password to your email address. That password allows you to use that handle to post a message.

Feedback is welcome. If there are big problems with the Outside USA page, we will change that page back to unrestricted posting. If there are no big problems, we will convert more pages of BJ21 to that system. It's possible that in a month or two we will have converted all of the free pages of BJ21 to the new password-required posting that we have just set up on the Outside USA page.

Stanford Wong

Stanford, I haven't been around for awhile but for the most part, at least on the boards I visit, there doesn't seem to be an outbreak of flame wars. The problem of posts under other users screen names was solved with the voluntary registration. Since this board is already moderated it may be just be a lot more work for no real result.

I'd also like to mention that for those of us who are already registered our passwords will work over on Outside USA. Hit 'em hard, The Side

Less restriction = more posters

I'm making a list of things I'd like to see changed to the new message software on the Outside USA page. The two major ones are:

I tried creating a new profile, and the software won't let me. It will let me edit the Stanford Wong profile, but it won't let me modify the name.

I don't care for the automatic carryover of the subject line. I'd rather force you to insert your own subject line.

Stanford Wong

Stanford,

Your password system will 86 me from contributing posts anonymously. When Bishop implemented his password system on free pages, I felt it was too troublesome, so I quit visiting his free pages. If you insist in implementing your password system in all your free pages, I'll be a goner.

BTW,the Loopholer's post may be my last anonymous post if you require me to register before posting anonymously: http://bj21satellite.com/LV_bj/index.cgi?read=38417

Besides myself, I'm pretty sure that there are other guys who've contributed useful posts on free pages anonymously. Your password system would 86 them out as well. Think about it, Stanford.

Regards
D

Your password system will 86 me from contributing posts anonymously.

I do not understand this line of thinking. All that is needed is your "handle" and an e-mail address. You can open a free web-based e-mail account at any number of places (Lucos, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) while remaining completely anonymous. It only takes a few moments.

At RGE an e-mail address is not even required. It is no different from registering your handle, as you have done here.

In what way do you feel that your anonymity is compromised by this system?

I feel that such a topic has no place for your fine site.

...if you remove their playpen, they start crawling all around the rest of the house.

Instead I vote for a genetic learning algorithm to syntactically analyze each post, detect the advocacy of progressions, and proactively punish offenders with DoS-style barrages, improperly formatted packets, pernicious Java code, never-ending porn popups, and/or the hilarious insertion of embarrassing text, for example "P.S. I flunked kindergarten and the opposite sex shuns me" in the offender's post.

Parker,

A clarification seems to be in order here. When I said: "Your [Stanford Wong's] password system will 86 me from contributing posts anonymously." I meant that the password system would not allow me to sign off as any "anonymous handle", i.e., Loopholer as in this post: http://bj21satellite.com/LV_bj/index.cgi?read=38417.

Let's say the new password system were in place. In order to beat the password system, I'll have to go thru the whole 9 yards to register "Loopholer" before posting anonymously. That's too troublesome just to make a post anonymously. I personally didn't like to sign the post off as "D" because I like "D" to remain as a low-profiling "card-counter-Joe" in bj21.com, not as a tax man.

Regards
D

There are ploppys on every board. Half the posters on Progressions are anti progressions posters, and I'd say 3/4 of the discussion is the same rehashed argument between the same handful of people. The other 1/4 is fit, IMO, to be placed in Beginner BJ. I think if Stanford knocks the page down it will give beginners a subconscious message of its worth.