/prob/ ʭ A Modest Proposal ʭ

Lets face it, GJS/JSB-1 was a failure. It attempted to enact a system of vetting respectable /prog/ posters, but all it accomplished was enabling trolls to hijack the protocol and create 'authenticated' shitposts[1]. The fatal flaw in the GJS Protocol, is the fact that the users of the protocol remain anonymous. What the GJS creator failed to realize is that there is a good side and a bad side to each and every poster here on /prog/. Our greatest programmers are also our greatest trolls. What I propose is a simple. First, we must all begin to use tripcodes. Then we must filter out all anonymous posts. If you see a post you don't like, filter out his tripcode. If a poster has a reputation to uphold, he won't sully his name with shitposts. If he wishes to shitpost anonymously, he will be filtered out.

I want you're honest opinion /prog/, what do you think of this proposal?


[1]http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1277199219/1-40

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Actually this is a great idea. On the face of it we would still be anonymous and have the advantage of being anonymous but also with all the same advantages of a more traditional forum. As you said you would really have to trust the admin. Interally all posts by an anonymous user would still be associated with a discrete identity but this relation should never be known. Thinking of it like that, if you filter posts by user x the absense of posts that previously existed would be enough information to expose the user's identity.

If that's how the feature would work then it's the same as having no anonymity at all. If ignore should only apply to one post it's exactly the same as /prog/'s current problem.