I have anonymous posting and replies enabled on a few of my forums. It can sometimes be confusing to tell whether anonymous replies are from the OP or from other users replying anonymously.

Would it be possible to have the author indicator appear on the anonymous OP's replies as well?

We had another topic today where this was an issue.

Does anyone else think this might be a useful additional or is anonymous posting not as widely used as I thought it might be? 🤔

I don’t use anonymous posting. Personally flagging someone as the OP seems to defeat the purpose of posting anonymously. 

 

I don’t use anonymous posting. Personally flagging someone as the OP seems to defeat the purpose of posting anonymously. 

How, if it doesn’t show who is the author? It makes sense to show that subsequent replies were made by the author.

In addition, if a user edits their anonymous post it will show their user name in the edit message.

 

It can sometimes be confusing to tell whether anonymous replies are from the OP or from other users replying anonymously.

Hello, 🙂

I’m facing the same problem. This makes the discussion confusing…
Is there a way to easily make the difference between several members who post anonymously in a topic ?

 

Hello, 🙂

I’m facing the same problem. This makes the discussion confusing…
Is there a way to easily make the difference between several members who post anonymously in a topic ?

My members have resorted to calling themselves "anon 1" "anon 2" etc.

I was thinking that an automatic colour system might be useful?

 

In addition, if a user edits their anonymous post it will show their user name in the edit message.

This is a problem..

 

In addition, if a user edits their anonymous post it will show their user name in the edit message.

 

 

This is a problem..

If you are seeing this as an issue, then its an issue on your own site. Ensure you are on the latest release and test this again, quoting a new post. If you are still seeing an issue, please post a new support topic rather than tagging onto a suggestion

 

 

quoting a new post

But they are referring to editing a post, which produces this:

...which may or may not be visible to end-users depending on configuration.

I will bring that up as a bug, but its very likely that is correct if the user can see who has edited at item

 

...that is correct if the user can see who has edited at item

But shouldn't it be the case that if the anonymous author of an anonymous post should have their anonymity maintained when editing said post?

 

But shouldn't it be the case that if the anonymous author of an anonymous post should have their anonymity maintained when editing said post?

Well, kind of. It could be edited by anyone, and that person may not be anonymous. So its not quite as simple as just marking it anonymous. Thats not to say that cannot be thought about. As said, I have brought it up as a bug report 🙂 

 

As said, I have brought it up as a bug report

Good because that is what they are reporting - not that someone else has edited it, but that the anonymous poster has edited it.

 

In addition, if a user edits their anonymous post it will show their user name in the edit message.

Anyway - was just correcting the 'quoted' confusion.

Off I head to test it out now...

 

 

Good because that is what they are reporting - not that someone else has edited it, but that the anonymous poster has edited it.

 

Yes, thank you for that 🙂 

And now tested...anonymous user unable to edit their own post, as far as I can see, so not sure how they've ended up in the situation the poster mentions (same user posted all three of the below, and is being used to attempt to edit)

Edited December 3, 2024Dec 3 by Nathan Explosion

I suspect that the user is staff and can edit anyones post

Yep, that's the badger. Viewed as someone who can see the edited information:

And then viewed by someone who isn't permitted to view the edited information:

Edited December 3, 2024Dec 3 by Nathan Explosion

And seeing as staff can view who the author is (via that eye) then nothing extra is being presented here that isn't already available via that method.

And disabling the "Can view anonymous author info?" mod permission results in the hiding of both the eye and the 'edited' information.

Yes, thats the conclusion I was coming to. Thanks for sharing 🙂