The possibility of

naughty children posting in our names

is a grave problem. (I don't know if I was victimized as well; anyway I hereby solemnly declare that it is not I who is posting anything stupid, including this message!) It could be solved in a simple way if we could protect our nicks with passwords, as done in many other forums. There would be no restriction of privacy if we could do it without a mail address and - more importantly - without cookie.