[EricH]

Originally Posted by BrennanB

C- I can see this being a legitimate use.

Just to get this out of the way, I was thinking about doing something like this thread myself. Looks like I'm not the only one.

And the one point I'd like to make is that that "legitimate use" for several years had a CD subforum: FAHA (FIRST-A-Holics Anonymous), where some of the moderators would, if someone wanted to make such a post, they could post there and a moderator would "scrub" it (if necessary, to remove identifying info) and post it under their own names. I think it was removed because it was low-traffic, and in preparation for the forum changeup (that hasn't happened yet--Brandon can confirm if he wants to). I'd really like to see that one come back.


The one other thing I'd like to point out is that duplicate accounts are specifically banned by the CD rules that every member of the site agrees to when signing up. So if you have an account and make a burner account on top of that, then you could run into the moderators, and they can find you and call you out by username. I seem to recall a case of Brandon Martus pulling that on someone who was not willing to give their opinions a name and face. (I will note that with permission, some persons and/or groups of persons have duplicate accounts--but in those cases, I'm pretty certain that those persons/groups asked ahead of time and most likely stated why they wanted the duplicate account.)


Just as a thought, and if someone thought it was actually feasible, what if there were a few "forum-bots" who could, if messaged, BE the "anonymous users"? Nah, probably never happen...