Last week I visited the London Twestival and frankly it was a great place to meet some really smart people and of course the fact the event was supporting the charity water.

I have read some really good reviews of Twestival, especially Jemima Kiss’ article on the Guardian website.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is anonymous commenting. The Guardian article was showered with comments from people simply there to create an argument, and frankly, to try to belittle the efforts of the Twestival team.

People often hide behind their online “username” and think that gives them rights to attack others. I hate this and think we should all get behind a campaign to stop this anonymous commenting, removing such comments will surely help clean up the web and remove bullies. The bullies never reveal their identity so why should we allow them to continue to spread their filth? By this I don’t mean innocent web stars like DaddyPapersurfer, I mean people that simply trawl the web spreading hate.

Should we not be able to name and shame cyber bullies? I refer you to a death threat Sylvie once had, as ever, it was an anonymous threat, sure it was a chain letter but shouldn’t someone be responsible for knocking on the door of that freak and actually make him or her explain why? I receive a number of emails each month from people asking what do when they receive such nasty comments on their blogs. I once had to call a Lady in the USA, she was being stalked across the web due to replying to an anonymous comment, she felt it was about to cross over to real life..of course, these bullies never appear offline.

That one example above simply should have been followed up and taken to the police, but as ever, online has no real law, no real way of tracking them down, masked IP addresses etc.

I suggest we get together and create a kind of mini-law. If we stop the anonymous comments, we could each play a part in making a start on cleaning up the web.

Or am I mad?