beautiful dog
secondly, ReBi is right about the chat room for most of its existence, once could come in under a username which appeared identical to one used by others
you simply had to place a character in the name like "
_" which did not appear on the chat room screen
I do believe that unregistered names appeared slightly different, how so I cannot remember
eventually though, some time after these forums were up? once again, cannot remember when exactly
chat became a registered only thing, that was a good thing
as would be the death to all what we call "anonymous posting" here on this site
I use that term not because it means that people are actually anonymous, of course not, in a world filled with countless computer geeks
huge amounts of "free time" and ever better technology
no one is really anonymous
however, if there were no anonymous then "usernames" would get banned that violated the "TOS" and many who now engage in the current batch of boring, pointless, repetitive flame wars would desist
but then again, its merely theoretical (& unlikely to happen here @ Mos-solo)
given that "powers that be" here are doggedly determined? with an already antiquated notions like "user freedom"
and good on them for the spirit with which they believe this
still, I think I know from history what the future holds for lawless, chaotic places and that is government tyranny
that will be the final judgement on all of the places which chose not to self police themselves, that is the bigger picture here
and after that actually important things like "net neutrality" will also meet their doom
I think that
powers that be see that, some of us just differ on how to respond to it