# Plugin that allows anonymous posting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799
**Category:** Marketplace
**Created:** [June 23, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799 "2014-06-23T15:24:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@timeline](https://meta.discourse.org/u/timeline)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/1 "2014-06-23T15:24:23Z")
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)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/2 "2014-06-24T03:41:57Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@timeline](https://meta.discourse.org/u/timeline)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/3 "2014-06-27T13:56:28Z")
How much would you estimate the cost for such plugin? I have a feeling this is going to be costly.
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### Author:  [@davidshq](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidshq)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/4 "2014-07-27T20:40:24Z")
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:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting-mode/4008](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-posting-mode/4008)
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-anonymous-posts/9520](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-anonymous-posts/9520)
> [@\[Bounty\] Subcategory / Anonymous postings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bounty-subcategory-anonymous-postings/15983):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Posting to Subcategories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-to-subcategories/15412/2): I’m no developer. But I’m willing to pay for this feature to be implemented, my team and I really do need this feature if we’re gonna run Discourse. frowning Subcategory posting… [//cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/meta/original/2X/f/f52086106818bff30b686d53f37738e1386ce20f.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/2X/f/f52086106818bff30b686d53f37738e1386ce20f.png) Also something that’s not as “important” but a feature we’re looking to get is an anonymity feature when you create posts…Say I w…
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### Author:  [@rubydoob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rubydoob)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/5 "2014-07-30T23:22:07Z")
A week of development is 4k (40 hours) for a ruby developer.
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### Author:  [@def](https://meta.discourse.org/u/def)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/6 "2014-07-31T17:51:21Z")
Or 32,190,000 Laos Kip?
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### Author:  [@davidshq](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidshq)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/7 "2014-08-06T02:57:58Z")
So to fund a weeks development we’d need say 40 people at $100 each. That sounds doable.
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### Author:  [@timeline](https://meta.discourse.org/u/timeline)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2014, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/8 "2014-08-06T07:00:19Z")
I’m down for that. It will definitely give (insert your forum here) an edge vs other forums/fb groups.
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2014, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/9 "2014-08-06T08:07:47Z")
> [@rubydoob](#):
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> A week of development is 4k (40 hours) for a ruby developer.
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.
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2014, 8:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/10 "2014-08-06T08:12:31Z")
> [@timeline](#):
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> allow unregistered users to post as anonymous
I’d add:
- 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.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2015, 8:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/12 "2015-04-07T08:11:15Z")
Initial implementation is live
> [@How will anonymous posting mode work?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-will-anonymous-posting-mode-work/25370):
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> Please make sure that anonymous posting mode can be disabled completely. There are already enough struggles with getting people to act like decent humans without adding anonymity on top of it. Eggs are annoying.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2015, 9:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/13 "2015-05-02T09:47:46Z")
Anonymous posting is available in Discourse 1.3.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2015, 9:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-that-allows-anonymous-posting/16799/14 "2015-05-02T09:47:48Z")