While there are some threads that I can see as belonging there, some clown trolls have been creating threads about various subjects that absolutely should not be in there, and their intent it to be able to troll people and also give the impression that multiple posters are backing each other up when it's likely the same guy patting himself on the back and using different sock puppet posts.

Controversies about BoD, Americanism, Cardinal Gibbons, etc. ... being engaged in by cowards who take hit-and-run cheap shots with Anonymous posts so they don't have to answer for them and take accountability for their thoughts and actions.

The news story one #5 was unnecessary.

#2 was an actual violation of the rules that merited OUTING the individual (Bellato).

The others I simply disagree with you about. Not wanting embarrassment, even slight embarrassment, or undue attention on one's spirituality, charity, volunteer activities is fair game for wanting privacy.

If you're bashful, shy, shrinking from too much personal attention -- go ahead and use the Anon subforum.

But if the reason AT ALL has to do with blowback, consequences, controversy -- then no, you have to face the music out here in the rest of the forum, where your ANONYMOUS or PSEUDONYMOUS USERNAME is going to be attached to it.

In other words, you can't have your controversy and eat your privacy too. It doesn't work that way. If you're that timid or meek that you want to throw your opinion out there, but fear the consequences (don't want to argue with people, etc.), then perhaps that's a sign you should just refrain from entering the controversy?

"Is ___[fill in the blank]___ a sin?"

Who are these posters? Did any of these people go to catechism class?

"Is ___[fill in the blank]___ a sin?"

Who are these posters? Did any of these people go to catechism class?

Trolls I would suspect.

Not everyone is a cradle/longtime trad. There are lots of isolated folks out there who rely on CathInfo as a sort of free correspondence course since the lifeboat Church doesn't exactly have neighborhood equivalents to RCIA. With reverts, what little they remember was bogus ordo catechism. Even the faithful with their regularly claimed pews might get stumped on the finer points of moral theology manuals.

Should they at least make an attempt to use the search function and try to educate themselves without being newbie nuisances (phrasing this as one myself for a while)? Yes, they should. Should we dismiss them as newbie nuisances? Maybe, maybe not. Case by case.