Anonymity: Good for ideas or no?

[BullDog]

I will never participate in any discussion without signing my name to it. If I sign BullDog I suppose that is semi-anonymous, but it is still me and I have a track record of sorts that people can refer to.

In my opinion, more often than not, anonymity leads to lack of accountability and quite often seems to be used to talk smack about people or spew hatred, all the while pretending to have lofty, noble goals.

At times I do get frustrated that people are focusing on the personalities rather than the ideas presented, but ideas are presented by human beings and we all have our individuals ways of expressing our thoughts and ideas- through our language, our personal filters, and personal histories (if any) with the people we are discussing things with.

I don't believe there is any such thing as a neutral idea- they come from real human beings. Trying to have a meaningful discussion with a bunch of "anons"- I just don't think it would work.