Yes

This is ridiculous! Why should any one take the time to respond to an innocent question on a forum in regards to the injury status of a player...
My thoughts are before anyone asks a question at a miniumum; they inform us if they were at the game or not. Also provide the forum some kind of evidence to prove that they have fully researched the topic and cant find a response elswhere.
Only then will the question be taken on face value or the poster risks being told they have "shit-4-brains" by those that reside on this forum.

^^^

(that was me, ironically... :p)

The ratio of "good information" anon posters to shit-post anon posters is roughly 1:10000000. Not sure it's worth it, as any good information posts are treated equal to the "Carmello Anthony to the Hawks" posts anyway.

A fluked game result prediction and a few successful hits on free agency news, versus countless shit-posts from toxic trolls. Sounds like a good deal.

Can you please create a thread for it so I can take my crying there, thanks

Is there a forum that we can discuss NBL without anon's and 99% flogs? Hook me up!

A lot of anons suggesting I do away with anonymous posting. AngusH - ironically, you weren't logged in for any of your posts in this thread, though I obviously appreciate that you use a consistent alias. But I would be more encouraged to change the style of the forum if more people logged in and used an alias without being forced to.

For anyone interested, ratio of thread replies from logged in users to non since the start of the year: 1.37:1. Reasonably broad blocks of IPs are forced to login to post which has probably helped that.

Of the anonymous posts, about half are from people who are logged in but not using an alias. I wrote some code that I never implemented that randomly chose an alias from a generated list of 400k+ for these people until they settled on one. Some were quite catchy:

Inferior Taupe Hedgehog
Peewee Rose Sheep
Skimp Olive Bandicoot
Helpless Brown Barnacle
Wimpy Copper Capybara
Peanut Purple Jackal
Failing Puce Quokka
Failing Magenta Lizard
Petty Sage Donkey
Skimp Fuchsia Mole
Sapless Taupe Moth
Peanut Cherry Boar
Scared Sienna Ocelot
Ragged Carmine Tapir
Ratty Moss Lizard
Rickety Magenta Beetle
Ragged Slate Beagle
Petty Cyan Zorse
Unconvincing Brown Moth
Petty Cerise Catfish

Anyway, a change from anonymous posting is a bit more nuanced than people think otherwise I would've gradually introduced it. It's in the forever-in-development Hoops rebuild that I work on between xmas and NYE each year and then run out of time before launching.

Shotgun 'Failing Puce Quokka'... my son has a Quokka hat his Nonna brought back from WA and it's the bomb... almost want to switch allegiance from the Bullets to Wildcats

LOL at anons demanding an end to anonymity. Even if everyone had to have a nickname, what would it achieve? There is still zero accountability. People could still have a shitposting alter ego.

I Agree with the anon (not me!) above - the problem with this board is not anonymity but a few aggro weirdos. Not all posts have to be serious but posters who do nothing but troll and attack other posters add nothing.

I think the problem is Adelaide and Perth supporters.

To swing it the other way, I would log in if forced to. :D

it's pure laziness on my part that I don't - I rotate between 3 or 4 browsers most days here in the office depending on what I happen to be working on, and although I find it a pain in the ass logging in to reddit/other random forums, I don't have a choice so I do.

I don't want to sound ungrateful either, definitely appreciate all the work you put into this place. I'll grumble and moan about troll anons (while not being logged in), but I still check back every couple of hours to see which former NBA All-Star or Ball brother will be next to sign with the Hawks...

Regular solid posters are allowed to gripe. I don't mind. Aggressive idiots are everywhere and I block/contain more than many realise, but otherwise the failings are on the platform. Needs a karma system, needs stronger encouragement for aliases/logins, etc. Hey, it's almost xmas which means the New Hoops moves a fraction closer to being finished.