In the anonymous mode , it is not clear how strong is this anonymity. Are the discourse admins able to identify the user? Are the server admins able to identify the user? Or is this untraceable?

There’s really only two ways that I know of to deanonymize an anonymous mode account, one is IP matching the accounts and the other would be checking the mapping records in the database that maps the anonymous accounts to the real user.

Sorry, a bad habit slipped in there when I replied. On a rather large instance I’m a moderator on I get yelled at for posting responses that are too detailed, so I tend to answer the question without going into too much detail. I forgot that here it’s actually okay to get into the details. …

[image] Claudia: I usually use a query that just dumps the 20 most recent anonymous mode accounts and their associated users. You might want to minimize the amount of privacy that you violate :wink:

[image] Richard - Communiteq: You might want to minimize the amount of privacy that you violate :wink: We don’t use anonymous mode for general posting. We use it to run short story contests where the stories are posted anonymously and after voting closes the posters are revealed. The DE query…

That’s a pretty cool use case for the anonymous posting function!

How anonymous is the anonymous mode?

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) June 15, 2022, 6:40am 3

The IP address method is not reliable.

Yes, any admin can look it up.

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How anonymous is the anonymous mode?

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