I am a little uneasy about this though; if an anonymous system is to be made public there really ought to be a more noticeable announcement made than just a new post in this thread.
I agree with stopping some of the hateful tags but not at the risk of 'outing' people and causing even more arguments.
And on the 7th April 2008 I stated that the attribution may well be made public, that I favour transparency, and that only Private Messages can ever be considered private: http://www.londonfgss.com/post141407-26.html
And I quote:
And tags are not anonymous. vBulletin does store who tagged what thread and when. Aside from PM's (which will never be looked at or touched in any way by me ever) all other data on this site I'm quite up for surfacing in some way, I like transparency. So it may well be that when you view tag search results it says something like "tagged by VelocityBoy" or whatever. People should not think that tags are anonymous.
That's pretty clear, always has been.
Only Private Messages are anonymous... everything else can (and eventually probably will) be opened up.
Tags were launched on the 1st April 2008:
http://www.londonfgss.com/post137782-1.html
And on the 6th April 2008 the possible misuse of them was raised:
http://www.londonfgss.com/post141309-19.html
And on the 7th April 2008 I stated that the attribution may well be made public, that I favour transparency, and that only Private Messages can ever be considered private:
http://www.londonfgss.com/post141407-26.html
And I quote:
That's pretty clear, always has been.
Only Private Messages are anonymous... everything else can (and eventually probably will) be opened up.