Would you register at a internet board that required you to provide your

[moof]

real first and last name ?

For example would you have registered here at the DU if they had this requirement ?

Has anyone else ran accross this ?
Is this some new deal to cut down on trolls ?

[quinnox]

1. sure because how would they know

if the name was true or not? I would still give a fake name

[Career Prole]

3. Egg-zackly! n/t

[Tempest]

2. How would you know if it were their real names?

Would everyone have to produce ID?

[beyurslf]

4. Sure, it is John Smith.... Or at least I say it is.... :)

[applegrove]

5. Very much so. I would very much like to have a DU where I knew

that freepers could be kept to a minimum. I see the idiots all the time - and they disrupt this board terribly (IMHO).

The whole privacy rights thing that came out of Terry Schiavo... struck me as 'change of thinking' and 'getting Liberals to react & join a position without thinking'. Now I see the whole disabled community is scared of the "privacy in death" idea. Of course they would. Total wedge issue (to separate disabilities community from progressives..after a long and fruitful relationship).

DU where you have to give personal information that can be verified would be great. Would keep paid freepers and rovbot operatives from messing up our discussions, conclusion and ideas.

I think it is a very serious issue and would be a great idea.

[XemaSab]

7. I don't see that much freeper destruction here

Sometimes otherwise liberal people have unpopular ideas that are shouted down by many other folks at DU, but it seems like the threads that are "ruined" by freepers are the threads that are flame wars anyways.

[patrice]

9. I've been curious . . .

Is that avatar yellow broccoli?

[XemaSab]

16. Looks green to me

I picked it in honor of GHW Bush, a Great American President.

/sarcasm

[patrice]

20. Aha, so it is broccoli!

You know, I was brought up to understand that most "likes" and "dislikes" can be changed, i.e. if you really want to you can learn to like broccoli. I always wonder about people who don't want something that is as good for them as broccoli is.

[applegrove]

15. You don't think they post some of the knee-jerk responses here that

encourage Progressives to forget themselves and be for "Wedge Issues" - "45 anti-Joe Liebermann threads in a row is some sorta propaganda". You don't think that ever happens?

I know they stir the pot. I cannot say exactly when but I have been on other sites where they are open (and have to be because discussion gets deeper). And they are all over the place there. I would love to see a sort of a port of entry situation at the DU where you at least put in your name a postal code - telephone number... and such. So that the posters feel the potential for being checked out. It will force them to lie if they are paid employees of the right.

I don't really know what the answer is.

[XemaSab]

18. I don't give them credit for that much subtlety

As far as stirring the pot goes, I think there are some pots that need to be stirred, and there's LOTS of people who seem to have survived a LONG time on DU who are bigtime pot stirrers. 45 anti-Howard Dean threads in a row, and all that good stuff. I've also seen otherwise sober DU'ers issue some rabid knee-jerk responses.

There are people here who are WAY too conservative, and there are people here who are WAY too liberal for my tastes, but hey, it takes all kinds...

[applegrove]

21. And if they all had to put down "roots" and their names and verifiable

addresses & tel #s.. just to keep us busy with our own problems within the progressive movement (our Democratic problems rather than problems thrown into the mix to **** us up)I don't think people would give up the DU. And it means we can more easily unite.

I don't think the Repukes and the trolls really want us to be a big strong plurality... they fractured the right into manageable tribes..now they want that for Democrats (divide and not face a plurality of voters).

IMHO

[XemaSab]

22. Maybe if you had to register

to read the posts??

Seems like trolls are a small problem, but a much more ominous problem is people coming in and ripping quotes out of context.

[applegrove]

23. Yeah - if you have to register to read the posts. Free but you need to

have an address, tel# and name.

[XemaSab]

24. I'm sure skinner

wants to spend his nights trying to get ahold of me.

Hell, immediate FAMILY can't reach me on the phone.

Because I'm at the office.

On the net.

:-)

On edit: Hey Skinner's kinda cute. I might be available if he wanted to call. ;)

[applegrove]

25. Okay then a monthly to pass test where the new 'password'

gets sent to our email. If you don't get the email (if your email is phony) and reconfirm every single month.. you get blocked? You keep your original password to log on... but periodically have to update your membership.

Could be run on a massive database?

[XemaSab]

26. Hey, I have trouble

remembering my own phone number.

Which may be part of the reason why nobody calls me. :-(

[applegrove]

27. It would not change your actual password. It would just be a monthly

test. So that freepers, trolls and conservative operatives cannot use the 'loopholes' in the bulletin boards to kick up needless fuss and keep us from moving ahead.

[Warpy]

6. Emma Goldman is registered on a lot of boards

They accept fake names as readily as real ones.

[Nevernose]

8. DU does have my real first and last name

Along with all of my credit card information, my phone number, and my home address. How's that going to stop trolls?

[moof]

14. Du does not require that info in order to post,

but that does bring up part of the reason for not wanting to do it personally. DU is likely to be a place that the Ashcroft and Co. would have gleaned/hacked to get names for their lists. For that reason no matter how unlikely, personally the posting would not be worth it.

[Dave Reynolds]

19. I use my own name,

mainly because I think it would be easy to locate the very IP addresses that I use to post here. I would hate to waste my fellow taxpayer's funds making Agent Mike work overtime to find me.

[moof]

10. OK, and your personal ethics would not allow you to use a pen name.

Either you give your real name or you don't post,
those are the only two choices.

[quinnox]

12. in that case

I wouldn't in all likelihood

[Tux]

11. I always use fake names

Like R. Powers or J. H. Christine.

[rzemanfl]

13. All this troll talk reminded me of a 78 rpm record I had as a little

kid "The Three Billygoats Gruff." Troll under the bridge sang, "I'm a troll, foldeyroll, I'm a troll, foldeyroll and I'll eat you for supper." The two littler billygoats both said wait for my brother, he's a bigger meal. The third billygoat kicked the troll's ass.

So we need to find that goat. Or get the trolls to say "foldeyroll" so we know where they are.

[mondo joe]

17. No. I, Joe Jones, have no problem revealing my name to be

Joe Jones.