Re: Please Voice your Opinions

I'd like to agree in general with Mike's position, anonymity can be helpful for employees and others associated with a railway being discussed.
When I first started posting on railfan boards, I was employed in the railway supply business, and a bit of anonymity came in REAL handy. UP was a big customer of mine and I can remember getting into a flaming match with that fine gentleman John Bromley....but UP had screwed up big time on something unrelated to our business relationship and I was pissed and posted so...and John Bromley's response was about the only time I ever saw John "Mr. Cool" loose his cool). Like I say, anonymity was real handy on that one.
My guess is anonymity can occasionally be helpful to the participation here of some C&TS and D&S folks. If all bosses were good bosses that would be less of an issue, but unfortunately that is not always the case. Don't really know if that is a real issue these days, but it could be.
Net net, the current arrangement seems to work most of the time. My only suggestion would be that if a post is in anyway a "problem" and lacks a known name or valid email address, if I were a moderator I'd be MUCH quicker to delete it than the same post with a known name attached to it.
JBW (as usual long winded)