You may have missed the following editing comment as it was inserted into an existing post, where no editing action in fact occured and did not refresh this thread.

"Federal, state, or local laws" and the ethical tenets of your profession have little or nothing to do with the administration of this forum. We are free to establish our own policies. Anonymous posting is a good thing to have in certain situations; but it has long been abused here, and it's time for that abuse to end. You don't have to register to post (at present) - all we ask is that people choose and use a consistent name. I realize that you are registered as *guest* - but I have to say that it's a user name that causes confusion and I'm sorely tempted to change it.
-Joe Offer-

If it is time for the so-called abuse of anonymous guest posting to end -:
Will this start be to end the example set by the practice of anonymous guest posting and anonymous editing (and the insertion by them of editing comments where no action has been taken)?

Is this not also judged by this unspecified 'we' to be an abuse of privilige?

If it is only your view - given with no prior consultation with any others - and you are not presuming to be speaking for any others -perhaps it would be more honest to say so and use the word I?

And when it is simply your view - and when you feel it must be expressed publicly - perhaps it can be limited to conventional postings which do refresh the thread and not inserted in editing comments - which do not.

For what it is worth - my view is that I consider this to be an abuse.

And if it is an example that is still set to continue - is not a message of a clear double standard being given to our forum? Perhaps before you are sorely tempted to interfere further with how posters wish to post - you could set the example of being seen to put your own house in order first?

It would perhaps be better for you to being seen to concentrate on aspects of posting that should be under your control - rather than being seen to be vainly chasing shadows, on aspects which are not?