It’s not anonymous, it records the name associated with your google account. (Of course you can just create a google account with a fake name, but then you can also just make an EA forum account with a fake name and post here.)
I believe this is just the confusing way that Google handles anonymous forms. It states the account you are currently using, but then has a parenthetical indicating that the information won’t be shared.
The issue was that we were letting people upload files as submissions. If you uploaded a file, your email or name would be shared (and we had a note explaining this in the description of the question that offered the upload option). Nearly no one was using the upload option, and if you didn’t upload anything, your information wasn’t shared.
Unfortunately, Google’s super confusing UI says: “The name and photo associated with your Google account will be recorded when you upload files and submit this form. Your email is not part of your response,” which makes it seem like the form is never anonymous. (See below.)
I removed the upload option today to reduce confusion, and hope people will just create a pseudonym or fake Google account if they want to share something that’s not publicly accessible on the internet via link anonymously.
What the form looked like:
I don’t remember what the wording of the description actually was, but it was along these lines.
Here’s what the settings for the test form look like:
The criticism contest has an anonymous submission form too.
It’s not anonymous, it records the name associated with your google account. (Of course you can just create a google account with a fake name, but then you can also just make an EA forum account with a fake name and post here.)
I believe this is just the confusing way that Google handles anonymous forms. It states the account you are currently using, but then has a parenthetical indicating that the information won’t be shared.
Think that changed after Aleks commented
The issue was that we were letting people upload files as submissions. If you uploaded a file, your email or name would be shared (and we had a note explaining this in the description of the question that offered the upload option). Nearly no one was using the upload option, and if you didn’t upload anything, your information wasn’t shared.
Unfortunately, Google’s super confusing UI says: “The name and photo associated with your Google account will be recorded when you upload files and submit this form. Your email is not part of your response,” which makes it seem like the form is never anonymous. (See below.)
I removed the upload option today to reduce confusion, and hope people will just create a pseudonym or fake Google account if they want to share something that’s not publicly accessible on the internet via link anonymously.
What the form looked like:
Here’s what the settings for the test form look like:
It previously said: “Your name and profile picture will be shared” (or something like that), but this seems to be fixed now.
Yeah I asked em to fix this