I agree. namefagging generally fucks up everything and derails threads. Everything some name fag post some stupid comment it just turns the thread into a sperg fest between the namefag and the shitheads feeding the namefags ego by attacking them

Agree 100%.

I am not of the mind that forced anonymous is automatically a bad thing. That it can lead to avatarfagging as a workaround is true, and best stopping this from being the case usually requires an omnipresent moderative dedication. Moderators and administrators are not identified by individual screen name, but they may still identify themselves under forced anonymous by those colored tags, so any confusion and assumption is avoided. The disadvantage is that, once put in place, it's a bad idea to ever lift it. The problem can only return, worse than it ever was.

The most ideal way with which it could be dealt, I feel and have always felt, is allowing names and tripcodes (or just tripcodes) to be used by anyone, but banning, with extreme prejudice, those that abuse the privilege, abuse being whenever his individual identity has nothing to do with the thread or he is not a contributor that matters depending on the circumstances (image set dumps or some kind of bite-sized-piece-of-a-story-per-post affair). Privilege is the keyword here. This, unfortunately, requires devoted moderators whose discretion is quasi-saintly or simply trustworthy, but, lol.

In conclusions: Tripfags please fuck off forever.

Hey guys what's going on in this thread?

>>124

Nothing of note. Go back to baking a cake for your boyfriend.

I agree with this thread.

op is correct. Go to Reddit you namefags

lol ANANYMOOSE is da best poster, he doesnt affraid of anything hur hur

ANANYMOSE LEEJUN

R U ANGRY BROTHER

>>408
>>409

You namefags and your stupid names that are being fags.

>>410

>>411

I like Timmothy, IntroMAN, and Jengatype's posts a lot more than that Anonymous faggot, his posts suck.

>>416
Well I'm Bitch, I have no real name, and I'm not that Anonymous faggot.

>>417

I don't know who you are, you don't post in /cwc/.

>>418
Yeah I do, check your thread.

>>419

Yeah but you did that after I said you never post in /cwc/ so that doesn't count.

Hi Thorg, it's Anonymous. What's going on in this thread?

This is now the official namefag love thread.

>>611
Unfortunately, this is /bitch/ for a reason. Go to /tropertales/ if you want to love something.

>>612
You know, when someone has a valid reason for not wanting people to namefag, I'll gladly stop namefagging.

The fact of the matter is, it shouldn't really be an issue at all. How does someone calling themselves Jengatype or Timmothy Cruzetor or Buttfuck McGee interfere with your usage of this board?

If I didn't namefag, I'd still be saying the same shit I say now. I'm not a mod. I'm not an admin. If it really pisses you off that much, ignore what I post. It's not that hard, surprisingly.

>>613
I'm just reminding you this is /bitch/. I ain't even mad.

>>614
Didn't say you were.

To me, a person who posts with a name on a board where everyone else posts anonymously is a lot like someone who wears a giant, retarded-looking hat all the time. Imagine a coworker or student at your school who shows up every day wearing a big Dr. Seuss style hat with bells hanging off of it.
No matter what he says, all you can think about when he talks is the hat. If he says something awesome, you're disappointed that he said it while wearing the hat because it's hard to take him seriously. If he says something utterly retarded, people's reactions inevitably turn into attacks on his hat because that's all they can think about whenever he does anything.
He defends the decision to wear the hat by saying that anyone could wear their own hat, if they wanted to. Of course, most people think he looks absolutely ridiculous and would be too embarrassed to wear a similar hat, so they choose not to. Everyone else starts to get annoyed by how insistent he is on wearing the hat, but all the attention and focus on his hat just makes it much more difficult for him to back down and take off the hat.
The guy wearing the hat claims that he could take off his hat, but nothing about him would change. He'd still occasionally be funny and sometimes be retarded. Everyone else wonders then why he even wears the hat, if he could just as easily not wear it and absolutely nothing would change.
What's worse is that he has chosen to wear the hat in a place where people specifically gather because they prefer to not have to deal with ugly hats. Some people need to wear certain hats for special occasions or might put a hat on temporarily, but there's an implicit agreement among everyone to never don a hat and then leave it on forever.
The solution then becomes to outlaw hats or to force everyone to wear a hat. There are other places everyone could go where you need to have on a stupid hat just to get in the front door, so there's no reason to turn every other place into those. Some of the people who wear their stupid hats seem willing to take it off, but there are some that resist to the very end. They've hinged so much of their identity on being recognized as the guy with the retarded hat that they'd feel lost and unimportant without it. So much discussion and attention has been directed at their hat, they'd rather start a civil war than give it up.
The hats are ugly, the people who wear them are immature and selfish.

Also, you could substitute the hats for fursuits or face tattoos or something otherwise retarded and embarrassing and distracting.

>>616
dont like the "hat", then just ignore it?

people should be allowed to wear any "hat" they want

the people who are genuinely butthurt over the namefield, seriously are acting a bit LOW functioning autistic about it.

removing the name field wont change any of the "name fagging" that you annanymoose jeejun kids complain about, it just makes it harder to verify who is posting.

>pic related... let the butthurt flow through you

>>617

He doesn't seem particularly butthurt to me. He's just voicing that he thinks it's immature.

>>617
Yeah, I really can't say that I'm very mad or butthurt about anyone who decides to post with a name. It just doesn't reflect very well on the poster and I think people are typically inclined to ignore or antagonize people who don't post anonymously.
Maybe it's some sort of meta-troll tactic where the people who think they're the most awesome trolls act like retarded lolcows intentionally so they can feel like they trolled everyone who reacts, no matter how they react?

>>619
ok, so ignore it then? if you can ignore it, its one less thing to worry about in your significant life....

>>620
I'll ignore it, when you ignore it.

Hey guys it's me, Jerry Dingleberry, Legi0n's brand new namefag who has never been here before. Expect loads of HILARIOUS posts coming from me XD

>>622
Glad to have you aboard, amigo.

>>623
Whoa, we have the same name!

>>616
There is so much straw-manning in this post that I don't even know where to begin.

what i personally find the most annoying about namefags is that they seem to think that posting on /cwc/ somehow makes them inner-circle
at the very least it makes them feel like some people think they're more inner-circle than the average anonymous user

>>627
Yep, that's totally why.

This argument. It's as old as the chans themselves. I've seen it on /v/, /co/, and way back when I was new to 4chan, /b/ (never seen people bitch about them on /c/, /d/, or /x/ though).

I honestly see good points on both sides, and through all the threads just like this one, I've never been able to really pick a side for myself. I think the best we can do is to agree to disagree with each other, after all everyone seems very strongly-rooted in their current position.

Me, personally, I love being anonymous. I've spent a good deal of time on forums (this was mostly during high school) and experienced my own share of drama (some of which I started). But this is why I love it: I don't have to worry about being politically correct, I don't have to worry about sucking up to mods, I don't have to worry about post counts. This is an internet environment lots of people thrive in (anons), and I'm no different. I can't speak for people using tripcodes, but for me the chans are sort of a feeling of liberation after all the petty drama I've watched on forums. I can freely speak my mind, and I love it.

Just my two cents.

Anybody remember back when Reggie Fils-Aime first took away the name field on /b/?

>>641
Well, namefagging's retarded on a random board, I'll admit that. Especially /b/, where it's a mark of pride to be assholes to anyone.

Lighten up, spergy sperg! Names are what separate content providers like TV's Brad Pitt from parasitic plebes like anon. No need to be mad bro... X3

>>643
agreed. btw, welcome to our board.
good to have all these new "namefags" lately.

I felt it was appropriate to see if this trip works on legi0n in this thread.

>This thread

Anonymous posters:
*BAAWWWW TRIPFAG CIRCLEJERK
*ATTENTION WHORES AND SHITPOSTERS
*NAMEFIELD SHOULD BE ELIMINATED
*U SHUD ALL BE ANON
*NAMEFAGS SUCK (because I can't stand frequent posters, people that like what I don't like, or ignore obvious idiots/newfags)

Trip/namefags:
*LOL Y SO MAD U AUTISMAL ASSMARAUDER
*I JUST USE NAMES CAUSE I WANNA
*OR CANT REMEMBER WHERE/WHAT I POST
*EVERYONE SHOULD NAMEFAG (to join me in whining about how my retardation is everyone else's responsibility to ignore and call any complainers "buttfrustrated losers with assburgers")

ATTENTION PLEASE
BAD GIMMICK COMING THROUGH
GET THE FuCK DOWN

Most of the namefäggotry is tolerable here. Its either just USI, trying-too-hard, or a combination thereof. That's to be expected.

However,that curry-munching, desi cunthole known as Yasmin needs to go.

Is there one thread she has posted in that she hasn't shitted up? Has she contributed anything of value at all?

NO!

And before anyone says this post is all Stormfront, well I'm a minority as well. however, you'd never know i was a minority because I don't fucking PERSON constantly and I don't namefäg.

Seriously, Yasmin,stop posting about your ethnicity, stop posting about your gender, stop posting with anecdotes from your life. JUST STOP POSTING. at the very least, stop namefägging you attention whoring curry-stinking twat.

>>744

i personally love how whenever anyone critizes her she pretends its because there's a minority of white supremacist loveshy assholes out to get her.

no, you're just a cunt

>this thread

>>613
I've always thought you were an absolute faggot. You should leave the board because you make yourself look foolish with every post.

>>1111
>you make yourself look foolish with every post.
yeah, but the part you're not understanding is that he's trolling you and he's too cool to care if it does make him look foolish! the joke's on you! you are, in fact, making yourself look like a fool every time he says or does something that makes you think he's a retard!

>>1116
Get madder.

>you are an idiot and your insistence on self importance is petty
>YOU MAD MAD YOU MAD MDA MAD I ONLY DO THIS TO PISS OFF AUTISTS LIKE YOU MAD

haha, namefags. cool beans jenga

>>1123
You're mad too.

Everyone is mad.

Forever.

You seem a bit angry good sir. Perhaps you should calm down and quit being angry over stupid internet crap

>>1134

Go away Yasmin. Seriously. You are shit tier.

/bitch/ would be cooler if it wasn't half namefags like yasmin and jengatype.

but then again we need all the traffic we can get

>namefagging generally fucks up everything and derails threads. Everything some name fag post some stupid comment it just turns the thread into a sperg fest between the namefag and the shitheads feeding the namefags ego by attacking them

God damn prophetic.

>>1198
lold.

this subject isnt really that important.

am i mad? you decide.

You guys posting about how great namefags are? It's nice you have role models.

>>61
would you rather I use my capcode all the time, OP?

Hey brahs what's going on in this thread?

>>1239
Who the fuck are you?

>>1243
Don't mind me, I'm only going to namefag in threads that concern me in some way. Most of the time I just post anonymously like everyone else.

>>1260

>only namefagging in threads that concern you
>starts namefagging in thread that doesn't concern you

wut

>>1238

i actually think it looks pretty, so yeah

>>1301
>encounters deliberate irony
>fails to recognize it
wat

>>1304
What irony?

>>1260

Oh I see this is your logic: Post a seed in a thread not about you, people respond to you making the thread about you. Thread devolves into a shitstorm over you. People make passing remarks about you in other threads, those threads instantly become about you. You post in those threads. Eventually every thread on every board is about you.

You will bring ruin to us all.

>>1393
>tinfoilhattiem.jpeg.bmp.png.fuckyou

Stay autistic, anonfags.

>>1426
lrn2namefag

I like this thread.

>>1428
Next you'll be advocating a fucking voting system so people can like your posts? Communist swine. I'M ON TO YOU.

>>1432
>like