Thanks for writing this! I agree making this decision very carefully seems well warranted.
One minor thing—you generously offer for people to contact you to ask about out-of-scope things (delivery research). I can well imagine someone finding this post in several years’ time and wanting to contact you, but I’m not sure if this anonymous account will exist/be monitored then; one possible solution is to link to a google form that would go to your email (without revealing what your name/email is).
If you go to “Account settings”—which is the second from bottom item when you hover over your user avatar in the top right—then go to “Notifications” then “Private messages,” you can make it so that you’ll receive an email when someone messages you on this forum, to whichever email you used to sign up. (This is in fact the default setting, I believe.) I think as long as you don’t deactivate your account, you can thus ensure that you’ll be notified if someone tries to contact you in the future, even if you’re not actively monitoring your account.
Thanks for writing this! I agree making this decision very carefully seems well warranted. One minor thing—you generously offer for people to contact you to ask about out-of-scope things (delivery research). I can well imagine someone finding this post in several years’ time and wanting to contact you, but I’m not sure if this anonymous account will exist/be monitored then; one possible solution is to link to a google form that would go to your email (without revealing what your name/email is).
Thanks! This is a good point—I’ll look into that.
If you go to “Account settings”—which is the second from bottom item when you hover over your user avatar in the top right—then go to “Notifications” then “Private messages,” you can make it so that you’ll receive an email when someone messages you on this forum, to whichever email you used to sign up. (This is in fact the default setting, I believe.) I think as long as you don’t deactivate your account, you can thus ensure that you’ll be notified if someone tries to contact you in the future, even if you’re not actively monitoring your account.