Firstly, the tools for following threads on here include being notified when someone replies to you. Removing the author credit breaks that tool.Nearholmer wrote: ↑7 Jun 2023, 11:24am I’d assumed that people followed threads, and recognised their own words when quoted.
Secondly, I've written a few times on here about my past memory problems and I doubt I'm the only one. However, I don't expect everyone to remember that, so I don't take name-removing personally for that reason, but I do consider it disrespectful of my copyright.
I think most people take it like that, but we do have a few posters that seem rather too keen to have the last word as if it somehow proves them correct.And, I think of conversations on forums as a bit like chats/debates in the pub or cafe, rather than the sort of hissing-contests that precious academics indulge in, where the precise forms of citation become ways of winning or losing points in the game.
Yes, it usually raises the barriers to entry. Some popular forum software pretty much blocks assisted browsers, as I discovered when I used a screen-reader while recovering from covid. Some forum software is also very battery-hungry, while some tracks user behaviour in a very stalkerish manner.Anyway …. The software on this form of forum is a bit clunky and antiquated, some use far more sophisticated systems, but I have a feeling that sophistication comes at a large price.