What?

No, go away.

In what sense?

I don't think we're really anonymous though.

We are not Anonymous.
We are not legion.
We forgive.
We forget.
Don't expect us.

I have a name kind sir

Yeah, what sense are you talking abo-

>Currently 319 unique posters.
Oh god what.

Anyways, In what sense are you asking about? I think when you spend so much time with the same people you get a feel for them, so it's not really in that way, but in the sense that you don't know for sure, sure.

>>2335
Wait, that said posts.

Hurrrr.

I've made hundreds of posts on tohno-chan. I'm pretty sure people can tell half of them come from the same anon at least.

No, we're the FBI.

If you mean partakers of *chan culture, yes, but we're not into DDOS attacks and that other silly thirteen year old boy stuff a lot of channers are.

>>2336
pretty sure that means unique posters

>>2345
>but we're not into DDOS attacks and that other silly thirteen year old boy stuff

I'm pretty sure that's what the OP meant. Thankfully, we aren't like that at all

>>2346
I'm always changing my IP address for the purpose of vandalising wikipedia so a lot of those unique posts might be mine

Don't tell me people from /b/ come here... or maybe this guy is a master troll?

I post with the assumption that people can figure out who I am from the content of my posts if they care to. Along with caring about the overall quality of posts on this site, I suppose it makes me think more deeply about what I say and how I say it than if I were posting on a 4chan board.

Yes.

If you want to create a beautiful "community", forum software is not for you. You should rather find some way to securely verify people's identities and then talk with them on a first-name basis. Once you start allowing pseudonyms, anything goes.
On the other hand, you're interested in starting a forum on some topic of your interest, and allowing anyone to post, then 2ch-type is infinitely better than PhpBB, Invision, or vBulletin. I'm going to refer to these as "old-type forum software"; I'm not pretending to be unbiased.

Here's why:

Registration keeps out good posters. Imagine someone with an involving job related to your forum comes across it. This person is an expert in her field, and therefore would be a great source of knowledge for your forum; but if a registration, complete with e-mail and password, is necessary before posting, she might just give up on posting and do something more important. People with lives will tend to ignore forums with a registration process.
Registration lets in bad posters. On the other hand, people with no lives will thrive on your forum. Children and Internet addicts tend to have free time to go register an account and check their e-mail for the confirmation message. They will generally make your forum a waste of bandwidth.
Registration attracts trolls. If someone is interested in destroying a forum, a registration process only adds to the excitement of a challenge. One might argue that a lack of registration will just let "anyone" post, but in reality anyone can post on old-type forum software; registration is merely a useless hassle. Quoting a 4channeler:
Trolls are not out to protect their own reputation. They seek to destroy other peoples' "reputation" ... Fora with only registered accounts are like a garden full of flowers of vanity a troll would just love to pick.
Anonymity counters vanity. On a forum where registration is required, or even where people give themselves names, a clique is developed of the elite users, and posts deal as much with who you are as what you are posting. On an anonymous forum, if you can't tell who posts what, logic will overrule vanity. As Hiroyuki, the administrator of 2ch, writes:
If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say, "it's boring," if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

>>2384
This is exactly the true problem with the old message board model. It's supposedly open to anyone who feels like registering, but there's always an inner circle of old members, usually around the founder, who monopolize the conversations so that there's little room for anyone else to involve themselves in a meaningful way.

That's what's great about the imageboard system, the fact that posts are necessarily judged on their merits and not by the reputation of the poster. It's sad to see that the concept of Anonymous has gone from the combination of practical solution to this problem and the stupid joke it used to be to whatever the hell it's supposed to be now.

>Registration attracts trolls.

I think anonymity attracts trolls more.

registration attracts people who take themselves too seriously

>>2384
It says anonymity is to counter vanity but the exact opposite has happened. Without a tangible face to apportion blame, people immeadiately assume the worst. Without a solid individual identity, the collective identity prevails and people unite themselves under *fag names and stereotypes. Without a personal reputation to nurture, only the person's ego and vanity remains and the person tries his utmost to stroke it by constantly insulting others.

>>2414
And yet there is no personal vanity.

If no one knows who anyone else is, then you cannot truly form an identity. None of the infamous tripfags from 4chan would have been successful if they did their thing anonymously.

>>2328
I am more of a tripfriend/handle user than Anonymous.

I don't mind people who use names. If they feel that suits them best, then good for them. I myself enjoy posting as anon, because I can be fully honest and hold nothing back.

TC is already a site where even with registration, the community is very accepting, but allowing anonymous posting really helps as well.

I have some accounts on registration sites like meltybread, but I'm not as open there. And I have to agree with the previous anon, many people seem to make a competition of how close they can get to the moderation team/admin, or their post count, etc.