I’m trying out posting anonymously and trying to think of everything that would need to be in order before I can introduce this. Absolutely love the ease of use of this feature from a user’s perspective. Cute little icon, perfect. The most important question I haven’t been able to answer myself i…

There’s a good reason why that feature is disabled by default. You should have a really good reason to enable it and you should trust them to not abuse that feature. Maybe use a higher anonymous_posting_min_trust_level? You can use the following query in the Data Explorer if you really need to find…

[image] Not-The-Foggiest: what would be an easy way to trace the author of any given anonymous post and find the actual account it originated from? The whole point of anonymous mode is that it’s not easy for an admin/moderator to figure out who posted it. If you need to be able to track who w…

Is the underlying idea here that ease of use promotes abuse? Of course with something this privacy-sensitive you would have to tread very, VERY carefully. But isn’t the same true for many other actions that are readily available to admins, like, entering people’s mailboxes and whatnot? Quite a long…

sorry, it did not see this: Can staff be able to see real author of anonymous posts - #6 by Un3qual and i did not notice that this even has a query in it: [image] Is anonymous posting possible? support You’re right – this query of yours will do that: SELECT users.userna…

… no? Open the admin user page for the anonymous user, and click Show Email. The controlling user shows up as a login method. Or was that removed?

[image] jomaxro: The whole point of anonymous mode is that it’s not easy for an admin/moderator to figure out who posted it. If you need to be able to track who wrote any post, don’t enable anonymous mode. I must say this puzzles me… the point of it is to enable members to disclose (hyper)sen…

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) March 10, 2019, 6:59pm 6

Nope:

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Finding originating account of anonymous posts

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