# Immer-Anonym Kategorien Plugin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** anonymous-mode\
**Created:** [15. März 2016 um 22:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110 "2016-03-15T22:35:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaeld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaeld/32/1594_2.png) [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)\
**Post date:** [15. März 2016 um 22:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/1 "2016-03-15T22:35:59Z")

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I had a request from a co-worker to find a way to offer “anonymous Q&A” to our division’s employees. At first blush, Discourse seemed like the wrong tool for the job: anonymous posting seemed anathema to the whole point of fostering open, friendly, but lively discussions. Discourse does have built-in support for anonymous posting, but it’s a global setting. What we needed was a way to restrict anonymous posting to a single category (or a select subset of them). Even better, make anonymous posting automatic, so that users don’t have to think about it (and can’t get it wrong).

Thus was born **[discourse-anonymous-categories](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-anonymous-categories)**.

This plugin lets you choose individual categories for “always-anonymous” behavior, where all posts and replies automatically use the anonymous pseudonym for the user instead of their actual identity. The user doesn’t have to opt-in, and more importantly, doesn’t need to remember to opt-out when they are done posting.

Here’s what that looks like:

1. After the plugin is installed, turn on the global setting to enable “always-anonymous” categories:  

2. Then, pick a category (or create a new one) for which you want “always-anonymous” behavior, and turn on the “Force posts to be anonymous in this cateory” setting:  

3. Now, when anyone posts (note that current user is “E”):  

4. They will _actually_ get anonymized:  

5. … like this (note that post is as “anonymous”/“A”):  

This plays very nicely with recent versions of [discourse-feature-voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-feature-voting/), which can be used to anonymously vote on topics. (The votes themselves aren’t anonymous, but the identities of the voters are not currently surfaced through the UI, unlike “Likes”.)

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