Females in the community.

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/30/2016 5:31 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> For reading posts, it wouldn't break clients, no. But what about writing
> messages with PGP signatures? If the client doesn't supported creating them
> automatically, it's too much of a pain the ass to do that manually.

That's right. But you can use DFeed to post, and you're no worse off then with 
other forum software.

>> You'd have the
>> option of what client to use, and if you use DFeed, it could be set to
>> not present unregistered postings to you (a perq of registering
>> yourself, you can customize the settings).
> Oh, no, no, no. That's a broken system. If one were to add such a layer of only
> allowing registered postings, this would have to be enforced for all users, not
> on a per-user preference. Otherwise you'd have a two-layer forum that would get
> super confusing. What if a registered poster replies to a non-registered poster
> message? I'd still see such messages. Or what about people that I want to see
> their posts, but they didn't bother to register and post unregistered?
>
> This is one of those things what would have to be a like a code formatting
> guidelines: it has to be the same for all developers in a project. It can't be
> like the choice of IDE/editor, which can be left to individual preference.

I suppose it depends on how much seeing posts from unregistered users bothers you.