Ireland, we have a wonderful sytem of Personal Messages here in which we can talk personally to people. In the PM system you know for sure that you are talking to who it says in the message, not so with the Guest title. Sure, many people use the Guest login and a consistent name, and many times a member looses his/her cookie and appears as a guest. But then there are nasty people who hide behind the guest moniker in anonymity so they can say nasty things.

When you download software on the Internet you usually get a certificate verifying that the site is really the site you think it is. Our names here are similar to that. You can trust people here whom you've met through their words, both publicly and privately...when you can be sure they are who they say they are.