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"I wish JR would put up an abuse-button statistics page so we can see who the top 100 abuse-button users are. Then you could go tell them to grow thicker skin." -AC-

Sounds like a great idea, Alan. You're tempting me...except that if you post one set of statistics, then you have to post another set, and another and another. Then you'd have a group of people not only posting the "member since" data, but following each other around posting their entire body of work, recorded statistically. People get hung up on that stuff, you know.

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Your example of the 'member since' stats has proved your domino theory to be wrong. - That hasn't happened.
-- Remember? - JR removed them at one point, citing a reason much like yours . - There was a big thread on restoring that info. JR restored it, & imo, it hasn't been abused much since.

If everyone here started with a clean slate, & clear rules were posted about how disclosures would be made on violations of the posting guidelines, & complaints filed [for or against], --
--- IMO, peer pressure alone would serve to eliminate much of the need for moderator action.

No such thing as too much information about an unknown poster, before you reply.

You're starting to convince me, tp...I feel dizzy.

Granted nobody goes for the "member since" stuff like they used to....and even though I am beginning to agree with you up to a point....I still believe that a LOT of the issues could be resolved if anonymods were given permanent unique anonyID's. Something as simple as #1, #2, #3, eh? As I understand it, our beloved mods all use the same ID. It's shades of dangling purplishly.

I'm not sure I see the point in keeping all kinds of statistics on anyone. At all. Much less making them available. If I got arrested for running naked through the forum, I wouldn't neccessarily want you to know about it. I wouldn't want anyone keeping statistics on how many times I did it. I wouldn't want every participant at Free Republic to be able to access my vital statistics. I absolutely wouldn't want to know about anyone else's bare-naked statistics. (Well, maybe.)

I'll consider your POV more, though. Btw: There's also no such thing as too much information about an unknown moderator, before you reply.