Off Topic: Tracking Users
[QUOTE=BigHardOne;1072777]Who uses their real information on this site or TER? I think you should second guess your friend.[/QUOTE]First off, let me say that I'm not really worried about my posts being traced back to me. That said, it is situationally possible to do so if someone really wanted to invest the time and effort (and probably a few subpoenas.
The ability to track someone is based upon the logs kept by each party between the website and the keyboard you are using. If each step keeps halfway decent logs, then it is trivial (with aforementioned subpoena or with a compliant sysadmin) to track a poster, even if it has anonymous logins.
I have no idea what logging if any this site does. I hope it is none. Even so, as any given link in the path fails to keep logs, you can use parties on either side of that link to figure things out.
Let's say this site doesn't keep any logs. It is possible that their ISP logs the source and destination of connections to their website (not likely, but easy to do if they want) along with dates and time. Now if someone wants to know who posted something with a given time stamp, they can figure out who was logged on during that time and will have a relatively small set of IP addresses to investigate. If they cross reference against other posts by the same person, it narrows rapidly. And all that without the website itself being involved in any way.
There are many other complexities that can be introduced to make the tracking harder, but most of them have a technical counter (again, if anyone was interested enough to put in the time and effort) so that things can be traced.