Fascinating idea, especially hiding usernames and identity. I do think it’s important to track and expose identity within a thread, but that may be all. Then again maybe not even that.
We could assign random usernames to each person in each thread, which are held constant within but not between threads. I’m not sure how useful that would be, or how much it would erode the general anonymity benefits. It depends on how the forum is structured; if individual threads tend to be very long then preserving identity within threads will carry similar risks to nonymity in general.
Fascinating idea, especially hiding usernames and identity. I do think it’s important to track and expose identity within a thread, but that may be all. Then again maybe not even that.
We could assign random usernames to each person in each thread, which are held constant within but not between threads. I’m not sure how useful that would be, or how much it would erode the general anonymity benefits. It depends on how the forum is structured; if individual threads tend to be very long then preserving identity within threads will carry similar risks to nonymity in general.