Never bothered with /b/ so my experience stems from literally the few hours this board has been up so I'm just wondering: why not add display IDs on every board?Not even talking about forced anonymous either, just that IDs alone might cut down the trolling if people aren't inclined to samefag to egg on people or keep inflammatory arguments alive.
Yes please
My opinion is that it's not necessary. Maybe on /b/ because that's nothing but shitposting and cancer but the rest of 4chan is just anonymous posting.
>>5341It's still Anonymous with IDs.
Not every board needs it, but I have a hard time thinking of boards that would be actively harmed by it. Probably the worst would be /tg/'s communal interactive storytelling-game threads, where somebody could inadvertently show favoritism to a specific poster.
>>5329It's a good idea. But it's because people don't WANT to be accountable. That's the 'thing' about 4chan, especailly on /b/. They think that they can post whatever they want and they are immune to harm. Which is false. But no less belived.
Why you should never consider applying forced anonymous/IDs on thematic boards (in case you don't understand it yourself):1) IDs work as tripcodes, even if they're thread-unique.2) Attention whores would still find ways to do what they do, which may result in avatarfagging, cancerous signatures or even something worse.3) You can't filter someone anymore, unless he uses a signature, or the IDs are the same for the whole board. But if you still need to filter a certain person, what was the point of implementing forced anonymous/ID in the first place? Also. I don't visit /b/ so I've no idea whether these problems are present there or not, but whatever the situation is /b/ can't be used as an example of such policy simply because it's too fast and filled with newfags who don't care about the community rules to the brim.These are my main points. If you need more, or just proofs, I'll post them.
>>5357>>5357Not really, we lose a level of anonymity when we can start identifying individual posters within threads.
>>5388A small one. In most cases it would do more good than bad.
Do it for /v/
/v/ needs IDs, the retards there are unbearable.
I think the only board that doesn't need IDs is /b/. Isn't it supposed to be a RANDOM board, this one place on 4chan where people can do whatever shit they like? I think it kills the whole idea behind /b/ completely.
>>5467I think part of the reason had to do with all the spam shit that goes on /b/. But I barely touch that shithole.>>5410I honestly don't think it's worth it, given the entire point of 4chan and anonymous posting. Well maybe on /v/ because that's been /b/-lite for god knows how many years.
>>5388Yeah, an insignificant level. Youre still free to behave like a shithead between threads, it just means you wont be able to spam or samefag a thread up without being very conspicuous. I bet scripts like 4chan X would add in some function to hide them anyway.Itd make recommendation, questions or certain other communal threads actually better. No need for everyone to adopt temporary trips or risk confusing one another with "No Im Spartacus" acts.
