Your comparison of members and GUESTS is completely wrong. Which is the point. If you have a membership, you can send and receive Personal Messages. When a member gets upset, uses poor judgement, bad language, makes a personal attack, or anything that may cause grief to anyone, we communicate with them via PM. I cannot do that with GUESTS. I have had several interventions and discussions with Member Flamers and Trolls, and resolved them like adults. As I mentioned before, most were being belligerent for a reason and we discussed them maturely and actually formed some resolution.

You quibble about the technology of accountability and correctly recognize the futility. However, you have completely missed the point (again). I don't want you to register so that I can email you or track you down or call the FBI if you piss me off, I just want others to be able to communicate with you via PM. That way we keep the forum clean of disagreements that don't need to be in public.

Accountability means that someone can contact you in a safe and secure way, free from your email or any form of your true identity, when you insult them or disagree with them or whatever happens. It is still anonymous.

Try it, you might like it. Create a crazy codename, use a fake email address, whatever. Register as a member, continue about your business and check out some of the PM's you get. Who knows, maybe fighting with people in PM will be even more enjoyable than in the forum.