Re:Extra Information (Score 1)

Having more information about a user might help you to put their comments in something resembling a proper context, but dismissing them out of hand based on a single trait (occupation or age) is prejudicial and short-sighted. Yes, most of the flames I've seen have been posted by the immature, but immature is not necessarily the same thing as young. A fourteen-year old is certainly capable of making a more insightful comment that a 35-year-old sysadmin, depending on the individuals in question, and judging them without reading them is doing both a disservice. [This is how I interpreted the comment "...reduce the time it takes to hit the NEXT button to zero.", seeming to imply that you would not even take the time to see what it was about.]

I does disturb me that providing more information about myself (such as gender, age, education) might cause me to be discriminated against in a forum that I consider to be freer of social biases that the rest of my environment; it disturbs me even more that after a bad day and a bunch of bad posts, I might, given that kind of information, find myself the one doing the discriminating.

Gothea