Non-Anon

The comments policy and the non-anonymous anonymous posting was formed from dealing with dickheads and assholes.

I didn't want to do it.

If I just let every anon comment post, you'd see maybe two or three a day with my normal traffic.  And most of them have excellent points or good observations.

The policy came from disagreeing with, Aesop, for example.  He and I, more or less, civilly disagree and post to our own spaces to spar about it.  I only go to his blog when the traffic sources in the stats say I'm getting a lot of hits from his place.

I call them the flying monkeys.

They post anonymously and break my rules.  They forget they are guests.  They are rude.  They don't stay on topic as they post gigantic diatribes.

Filtering the good from the bad got to be too much effort and it seriously affected my desire to blog.

Since blogging is a release valve for me, it's something I need to do.

So I nuked anonymous comments to make sure I would still post.

I did toss the people who refuse to make a Google account a bone!

If you put a little signature after your comment you're 95% likely to have your comment posted.  Several readers comment this way successfully!  Just make your last line your name and voila! you're not anonymous any more!

This also works if google logs out you for some reason.