I strongly believe that an anonymous posting feature is a great way to evolve from the usual forum systems - as evidenced by popular boards such as 4chan.
I’m not sure if the developers are too keen on making such a feature but I’m willing to pay for a plugin.
So the specifics are:
allow a registered user to make posts anonymously via a checkbox
allow unregistered users to post as anonymous
allow an option that makes a category anonymous only (wherein all posts within that category will be anonymous, regardless if the user selects the anonymous checkbox or not)
What kind of budget do you have, to get all of this done you are easily looking at 1-2 weeks of work. It is not trivial, especially the unregistered posting stuff.
I think there would be interest from others in participating in a bounty. I’d be interested…though my ability to contribute is fairly nominal. Individuals that are part of these discussions would likely be interested:
Really? Is this not a joke? I’m going to learn Ruby then starting from now!
I haven’t seen even a single ruby developer earning 4x4k = 16k/mo in any Russian speaking country, sounds really unrealistic.
PHP - up to 4k/mo
Ruby, Python, … - up to 5k/mo
Java - up to 6k/mo
People mastering Python in financial companies in Moscow earn 5-7k/mo, that is the maximum for highly skilled programmers. Then if you want to get even more, you have to become the part of a business, e.g. shareholder.
So where did you see $16k/mo positions for Ruby? I’m very curious about this.
p.s. This is offtopic… probably to be moved to a separate topic.
allow for per-topic flag to enable/disable anonymous posting which will override global configuration:
use global configuration (currently allow|disallow)
allow anonymous posting
disallow anonymous posting
One possible drawback of anonymous posting is that if you want to say something bad - it becomes easier with anonymous posting cause it won’t affect your karma.