Hi Art,
Believe me or not, but this possibility is already there. There is some kind of
template message appearing whenever you want to write a post through the forum.
So users don't even need to type something extra, it is already there. The
template looks like:
---
Hi,
...
Thank you!
---
My suggestions:
1. When the user clicks "reply" on an existing post, when the template
is generated, I guess the forum software could insert the name of the
user whose post is being replied to automatically, and at the end the
name of the user replying? That would give:
---
Hi <name of previous poster>,
...
Thank you!
<my name>
---
I don't think that would be too hard.
2. Perhaps you could remove the "post reply" button at the bottom of the
thread page, so that users are forced to reply *to* a previous post,
quoting the previous post (which is something that's sorely missing from
forum posts as well - most of them have no context at all!).
On a related note, I always read the mailing list and resent your
"old-school" comment, I just prefer messages to come to me so that I
don't miss anything. Plus, all forums I've ever been a member of
suffered from the problems Robert mentions, communication is very
unpersonal, users hide behind the anonimity and flame wars erupt because
of miscommunications.
For the record, you say that in the past weeks there haven't been any
posters without a real name, but there was one called "Real Name" which
slipped through. It's hard to take such posters seriously.
J-S
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