I gave this post a strong downvote because it merely restates some commonly held conclusions without speaking directly to the evidence or experience that supports those conclusions.
I think the value of posts principally derives from their saying something new and concrete and this post failed to do that. Anonymity contributed to this because at least knowing that person X with history Y held these views might have been new and useful.
Is that just from the tooltip? I’m not sure how anonymous posting works. It’d be interesting to learn who the author was if they didn’t intend to be anonymous and if it was anyone readers would know.
I don’t think you can post ‘anonymously’ in the sense that there is no account related to your post, you’ll always have to create an account, but you can of course use a one-off username and even email address if you want to. However, you can delete your account and then apparently all ‘your’ posts appear as “[anonymous]” whether you intended this or not. (And in this case, it seems the original poster just created this post with their usual, non-anonymous account, but then deleted their account.)
I gave this post a strong downvote because it merely restates some commonly held conclusions without speaking directly to the evidence or experience that supports those conclusions.
I think the value of posts principally derives from their saying something new and concrete and this post failed to do that. Anonymity contributed to this because at least knowing that person X with history Y held these views might have been new and useful.
It wasn’t anonymous when the post went up, but it became so when the user deactivated their account.
Is that just from the tooltip? I’m not sure how anonymous posting works. It’d be interesting to learn who the author was if they didn’t intend to be anonymous and if it was anyone readers would know.
I saw it when it first went up and it was nonymous, though I don’t remember what the user name was.
I don’t think you can post ‘anonymously’ in the sense that there is no account related to your post, you’ll always have to create an account, but you can of course use a one-off username and even email address if you want to. However, you can delete your account and then apparently all ‘your’ posts appear as “[anonymous]” whether you intended this or not. (And in this case, it seems the original poster just created this post with their usual, non-anonymous account, but then deleted their account.)