Letters to the Editor
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Thanks Garry Ownen
Good critique of the "I hate Broads(heet)" dude. He and a couple other regulars who reply to any article touching on Israel or Islam would seem to be classic masochists, repeatedly engaging in activities that cause them pain (reading stuff they know they will hate), but unlike more healthy masochists they demand that Salon stop making them hurt themselves.
I still like the anonymous option. The Craig story is an example of the kind of news item that some might want to post anonymously about in order to share personal information they wouldn't want linked to their regular avatar. An alternative would be to allow users to select temporary alternate usernames for such purposes, so within a given discussion people could keep track of the various anonymii.