Do you really think so? (Well, I suppose you must, or you wouldn't have said so.)

My opinion is a bit different - I think it will be a helpful thing, because it will reveal some of those who are not to be trusted. And that can only strengthen the Community as a whole.

We've had the cowards who create second (and third, and even fourth!) false identities on the Board so they can hide behind them.

And now, we have the same types who thought they could get away with anonymous snipes, or even with signing other folks names to their trolls in order to sow confusion and mistrust within the Community. Leaving aside the folks who at first didn't realize that, unlike e-Bay, the "dings" and "blings" would be anonymous if not signed, stripping the anonymity off those who continued to act in this fashion is like turning over a rock and watching things scuttle.

Actually, hiding behind the anonymity is like hiding under a sheet (and is based on the same principle -- or lack thereof), and Monday we will know just exactly who has been hiding under that sheet to spew their filth.

In the American South, the communities as a whole were strengthened, and freedom was furthered, when the sheets were stripped off. I would think the same would be true here. I think the Community will be much better for the knowledge - sunlight kills germs.

(BTW, I got an anonymous "ding" for a post earlier in this thread saying that people who hide their identities to take down others' reputations are cowards. Needless to say, the coward did not sign his/her name, but what can one expect of that ilk? Just one last salvo before the sheet comes off, I guess.)