> I agree that anonymous flames in order to hurt
> someone or make accusations that cannot be
> backed up are an abuse of the forum.

> However, criticism is not always a dirty word.
> How can anything ever be changed or even be
> studied as a possible threat if everyone tries
> to be nice and never mentions it?

This is nearly always contradictory : When 
criticism are not justified by arguments or are by 
incomplete/misleading ones, they are flames.
When posting anonymously, in the best case you hid 
some of the facts and in the worse case you 
intentionaly mislead readers.

Let's take a message where someone says "this cel 
is not a production one but a copy".
If the person posts under his own name, it's an 
information. Other people can ask "why do you 
claim that ? Do you have any proof ?". They can 
check if the poster is serious or if he is in the 
habit of throwing around un-backed claims. They 
can check if the poster has good reasons and the 
knowledge to make such a claim.

On the other hand, if the person post anonymously, 
you can't verify his claims. Maybe  the poster 
doesn't know anything about the subject and just 
throw around such claim. That's a flame.


Cheers,
Yann Stettler