# Anonymous posting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 31, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258 "2017-03-31T21:16:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![lsaredux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lsaredux/32/71438_2.png) [@lsaredux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lsaredux)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258/1 "2017-03-31T21:16:14Z")

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Don’t see how you can post anonymously on the boards. I set up a test/regular member account and do not see anonymous mode or anonymous posting options.

Can Admins/Mods see which user posted anonymously too?

Also can you set up anonymous posting/mode so only users with a certain amount of trust can use it?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258/2 "2017-03-31T21:29:19Z")

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Look under your user menu to enter anonymous mode, it is the spy glyph

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/a/ba30f1a4abd2262b980f3c2193960d79a20e0085.png)

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### Author: ![lsaredux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lsaredux/32/71438_2.png) [@lsaredux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lsaredux)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258/3 "2017-03-31T23:31:50Z")

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I don’t see that anywhere.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258/4 "2017-03-31T23:32:09Z")

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OK, if you don’t see that, then anonymous mode has not been enabled in your Admin, Site Settings.

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### Author: ![lsaredux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lsaredux/32/71438_2.png) [@lsaredux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lsaredux)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258/5 "2017-03-31T23:34:37Z")

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Just checked and I did. 😕

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258/6 "2017-03-31T23:40:49Z")

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It looks like you set the “min trust level to post anonymously” to 5.. there is no trust level 5.

I reset that setting to default, and now I see it.

@techapj can we add a validation to this site setting, so it is not set to an invalid value?

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258/7 "2017-04-03T08:54:51Z")

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Done via:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ac051d70efb1a97895fea12e614f54c6083cde9c](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ac051d70efb1a97895fea12e614f54c6083cde9c)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2017, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting/60258/8 "2017-04-03T09:17:46Z")

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