It seems that SK, or c.t. or whatever his or her alias is this week is unhappy that we moderate comments. S/he believes this is “Roman Catholic,” and is designed to squelch dissent. S/he accuses us of hyporcrisy, since one of the reasons for SBF is the fact that the folks at Baptistfire have chosen to disallow any posts on their message boards about Calvinism. S/he also believes we here believe James White to be above criiticism.

A. I have reason to believe Sk is one and the same as particular internet troll who has run afoul of the rules on Centurion’s blog, Steve Hays’ blog, and the Pedantic Protestant’s blog, and a few others in the past year. I can tell by the location information that SK comes from the same range of IP’s reported for c.t.

B. In addition, Sk says all of this and accuses us of hypocrisy and cowardice while using a fake email address and refusing to identify himself/herself. This makes personal contact with SK impossible. From this point on, allow me to invite SK to post with his or her full real life name and full real life email address visible to us all.

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Most of you have probably read the recent article by James White regarding BaptistFire.com and anonymity. But for the sake of discussion (and with his approval), I’m going to post it here as well.

White certainly hits on the real issue with the anonymous writers at BF.com: “there is only one reason for anonymity when writing upon theological subjects: refusal to be held accountable for what one says.”

I’d love to hear some additional thoughts on this matter of accountability and anonymity.

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