Re: Anonymous/Burner Accounts and CD Etiquette
 

Of course. Cluttering up CD with too many anon accounts for unnecessary things is completely wrong. I wrote this thinking about what people typically use burner accounts for. :)

Re: Anonymous/Burner Accounts and CD Etiquette
 

I wouldn't have as much of a problem with the "institutionalized/toxicity" post if it were actually asking for advice. But go back and read it, trying to find where the author does that.

Advice is definitely not what it is looking for. It's just an ex-mentor vaguely accusing an unnamed team's mentors of having ulterior motives, and accusing the team in general of nepotism and toadyism. The anonymous coward who wrote the post isn't even part of the team being accused.

The person posting claims to have been part of multiple teams that have had the same trouble, extrapolates that to "every team" based on "personal experience", and denigrates FRC in general because of it. That's a hint that the problem is with the person complaining, not with any of the teams. And because no identity is attached to anything being said, there is no background against which to assess the claims, and none of it is credible. Everyone trying to answer the post with advice seems to be missing its parting message of "Every FRC team is broken. Discuss."

It seems clear to me that the goal of starting the thread was merely to anonymously stir things up, not to try to find a way to fix anything. And that is what I have a problem with.

Re: Anonymous/Burner Accounts and CD Etiquette
 

There is another possibility. You might be motivated to use an Anon account because you have a strong suspicion (accurate?) that many readers will fail to treat what you write as the opinion of a single individual being expressed for only their own purposes.

It's not a "binary" situation. There are multiple dimensions/motivations.