Always-Anonymous Categories Plugin

Plugin
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I personally find that to be a feature, even though it is not intended to be one, as there is a reason it’s anonymous category. But yeah, maybe it happens because there isn’t a track maintained for the post. I’m honestly not sure, but this could be the reason.

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Great, this works perfectly fine. Was wondering does all the @anon created accounts get dumped after while or it remains there in the database?

45

I don’t think that they ever get dumped / scrubbed per se automatically. Just that new anon posts after x days from the last one by that user (controlled by a core site setting) create a new anon user.

It would of course be quite possible to do so manually.

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46

Got you :))

Also, is there a way to hide that popup every time when someone posts?

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47

Here’s a fix if someone needs it, you can form the repo and in the plugin.rb file you can remove both result.message and result.route_to, so now there is no feedback mechanism to the user, and no dialog box or popup will be triggered.

This is how the piece of code would look like:

if result.success?
  result.post = post
  # Removed message and route_to to skip the dialog box
else
  user.flag_linked_posts_as_spam if creator.spam?
end
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I’ve added this CSS to a Theme Component to achieve that (and hide their presence):

// Tweaks to the Anon category
body.category-general-hnz-anon {
    div.presence-users, div.row div.post-notice.new-user {
        display: none;
    }
}

The bit after category- is the slug of the category you are targetting.

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