Accountability to one's writings is perhaps a high point of any media - print, electronic or otherwise.Without a name attached, there is simply little credibility in the so-called facts being put forward to the masses. Noticeably those who write in to malaysiakini is proud to associate themselves with the keen, liberal and flagrantly anti-Mahathir stance of the editorial theme in general (the occasional fact-based stories notwithstanding).

This is true even with your polls. I logged on a few times and voted in the same way every time, just for the fun of it. Probably the poll is just that. Enabling some of the anti-Dr M out there to let off some steam. Kudos to malaysiakini for having thought of a way which involves little destruction; except to maybe some ego.

It's way better to do that than to burn trash cans. The invisibility of writers for your letters section makes for some tough editorial decision, doesn't it? Deja vu . Hmm. If only all the persons who were unreasonably bashed up in your 'Only The News That Matters' website were to lodge police reports, the feeling might well overload the deja vu system a la Matrix .