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Made this at Cynabun's suggestion - come weigh in all. Originating thread: https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost.php?postid=6111f97114350&commentid=6111f9e331d03

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I believe I make a complete argument for removal. Short version:

The community is what makes this, or any, site.
Bad actors don't invade to gain points, they invade to poison the community.
We're already anonymous through our usernames, which are pseudonyms.
What we call 'anon' posting is simply posting without context.
The only innate 'defense' against anon is that points aren't saved. By contrast, context provides a complete defense when pseudonyms are used.
The current anti-anon defense is meaningless. Given that a loss of points are the only sign of burning the defensive resources of the community, it means that the community's defenses are burned for free when defending in anon threads.

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Again, many of us don't care about points, and certainly none of our shills and related do. Shills aren't invading to gain internet points - they are invading to poison the community.

With anon, only system can defend us (we can see how well this model worked for the chans), and even then, he still has to unmask the posters and use prior context to do it. Without anon posting, we can defend ourselves. I've written at length in previous comments about why context is key to breaking the primary attacks that made the chans unusable: https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost.php?postid=60f79b500d74e&commentid=60f7c98732190

Weigh in everybody.