No matter how you look at it, this feature is broken, period. This discussion has been going on now for years.

It should be usergroup permission based, and user decided. With VB I always gave paid members the option to go invisible. With IPB we have the option to allow anyone to go anonymous, no one anonymous, or force all of a certain usergroup to go anonymous if they like it or not.

Why can't we have the feature to ALLOW a user to go anonymous ONLY IF their usergroup is ALLOWED to go anonymous?

This is one "bug" that really annoys me about IPB. Isn't it time you guys updated this?

I personally don't have an issue with it and I don't see it as broken.