That sounds laborious enough to set up that I don’t think I’d consider it a serious vulnerability, but I’m having a lot of trouble coming up with a scenario where it’d be worth the trouble. There are situations where I might benignly want to write an anonymous top-level post, but relatively few that absolutely have to be outside the discussion section, and essentially none that also have to be done on zero notice.
At least aside from perpetrating some kind of drama, and I hardly need to emphasize why that’s a bad idea.
It’s not about being able to post anonymously on zero notice, but about removing the temptation to skip making an anonymous account in borderline cases by converting it to a sunk cost.
The discussion section does change the calculation somewhat, but getting 20 karma on a clean account is not much more effort than getting 2 karma. (Someone explained the strategy elsewhere on this thread.)
That sounds laborious enough to set up that I don’t think I’d consider it a serious vulnerability, but I’m having a lot of trouble coming up with a scenario where it’d be worth the trouble. There are situations where I might benignly want to write an anonymous top-level post, but relatively few that absolutely have to be outside the discussion section, and essentially none that also have to be done on zero notice.
At least aside from perpetrating some kind of drama, and I hardly need to emphasize why that’s a bad idea.
It’s not about being able to post anonymously on zero notice, but about removing the temptation to skip making an anonymous account in borderline cases by converting it to a sunk cost.
The discussion section does change the calculation somewhat, but getting 20 karma on a clean account is not much more effort than getting 2 karma. (Someone explained the strategy elsewhere on this thread.)
That sounds genius, and simple. Do you have some more examples where this way of preemptive barrier removal proved useful?