And I think that's easier than requesting to mods.
Definitely easier, and I'd bet the mods don't get those kinds of requests that often.
I noticed the anonymous accounts last time I was reading through posts from 2010-11 (and I'd strongly advise anyone who hasn't browsed posts from the early days of the forum to do so--it's
really interesting) but never thought anything of it. You guys taught me something today! Not that I'm super knowledgeable about bitcointalk machinations anyway, lol. I've been an active member for years, and I still don't know how to do some of the basic stuff.
I agree that spams would increase, This might be the reason we don't have such feature.
Spam would increase
exponentially, I could almost guarantee it. I haven't seen any of those bots shilling testosterone or some weird product/service lately, but they were around a couple of years ago and probably still would be if that captcha hadn't been addded. I'm not sure if that's the reason why you can't just post here anonymously anymore, but I can't imagine allowing that anymore.