Yeah, that's right, I said it. No anon subs and no anon posting.
We are all already anonymous, so the only purpose for anon posting/commenting is really for users to make posts without risking damage to their reputation on the site, and/or because their reputation is already shit, and they don't want their shit reputation to get in the way of their ability to garner the attention of and manipulate other users.
What types of people like anon posting, you might ask? Well, shills, degenerates, kikes, feds, pedos, and anyone else who may benefit from not building up a bad reputation attached to a specific screen name. Doesn't exactly sound like a valuable bunch of users, does it?
So, maybe anon subs and anon posting aren't right for this site. Maybe you think that is a bit extreme, maybe you don't. Maybe you don't care. I sometimes wonder how much I care, but then I remember how damaging the whole Q thing was to voat.co, and the country as a whole for that matter, so, maybe there are good reasons to care.
And before you even suggest it, blocking does not stop spam, or shills, or degenerates, or feds, and it never will. Blocking is an avoidance strategy, and avoiding problems does not do anything to solve them. Downvoating, on the other hand, actually does something to protect the site from malicious users.
aleleopathic 3 points 2.8 years ago
I used to think as you do - the counterpoint to that position is context. English in particular imports a ton of context into even small nothing-sentences. Because of the ambiguity of English, much of our context comes from past interactions with a person/account/user (e.g. is the guy flirting or just making a joke / is MaroonSaint actually after my dick pics or memeing / etc).
And the killshot is using context for self defense, e.g. understanding if someone is arguing a position because they are pro-drugs/degeneracy/related, or if they are actually legitimately working through a position. For some attacks, like consensus cracking, context is literally the only defense we have against them, and even forms the backbone of bot detection strategies, etc.
Tl;dr:We have shitloads of shills, and context is our (only) defense against them.