User talk:Freakshot3

Hi Freakshot3, I saw you removed your user name from the "Opinions" section of the Server:Darrowmere US page and replaced it with "Anonymous". First off, thanks for contributing to the page. However, although it may seem as though you're protecting your identity, anyone accessing the history of that page can see how it has been modified and who has done the changes, as you have no doubt already guessed. With a little work it's still easily discoverable that the opinion belongs to you, as well as that you are the user who added the opinion to the page in the first place if you go back further in the history. Further, since it does matter who an opinion belongs to, as it may not reflect the opinion of other players on the realm (and also may give a clue to what faction the user plays, which is important to know for a PvP server), and since your user name is readily available to anyone who bothers to check the history of the page, I'm going to revert the change you've recently made to the page.

I understand that it seems that you don't want this opinion to be associated with your user name, but wowwiki does not allow anonymous editing at this time. (And to be honest if it did I would probably quickly delete anonymous opinions off the page as my Internet experience has taught me that anonymous commenters are more likely to tend toward excessive hostility and to distort issues.) If you don't want this opinion attached to your user name, I would contact an administrator, who may be able to help you better than I can, possibly by changing your wowwiki user name. (I would not create a new wowwiki user to express the opinion as this may label you as a sock puppeteer or worse.) Otherwise, your best bet may be to simply remove your comments from the page altogether. Your user name will still be stored in the change history for the page and someone will be able to find the opinion under your name if they go looking for it, but it will mean that a reader is very unlikely to do so, although admittedly then your opinion will also not be expressed any longer.

Hope this helps with your concern.--Scrotch 23:47, 31 March 2008 (UTC)