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Originally posted by phredgreen
there's something that comes with keeping a quality forum, and that's accountability. we expect each member to post threads and replies responsibly, and to allow them to do so anonymously takes out all accountability. this feature is something you will never see.
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Accountability would still be there - the data as regards who posted what would still be available to mods etc, it wold have to be for the reasons you said. I think the main issue was would it be possible to hide the posters ID from the rest of the group. The "report this post to a moderator" function would still be there and be used if anything got out of hand, and it may be a good idea to say that anyone who posts anything offensive etc whilst using the anon function would get banned instantly.
I don't think the thought was there for a moment to have no record kept of who posted what, or, at least, that's how I interpreted it.