• jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    25·
    7 days ago

    With better meta moderation tools, like slashdot used to have, it would be good

    But anonymous posting works already, you did it using a brand new account to post this post.

    • neidu3English
      7·
      7 days ago

      Seconded. Plus it should be something that is up to each community to decide whether to allow or not. Maybe up to individual users/clients as well
      I like the thought of seeing posts by “Anonymous Coward” again.

    • hightrix@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      This is exactly how I feel.

      I HATE it when people respond to the commenter and not the comment.

  • Magicalus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    This presents one of two possibilities:

    A) The anonymous mode is still tied to an account, and so instances could choose to just not show accounts as anonymous, or users could just dig through modlog.

    B) The anonymous mode isn’t tied to an account, making effective moderation nigh impossible, and spam very easy.

    Neither of these are good.

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
    71·
    7 days ago

    Wouldn’t mind, as long as there’s a (default on?) setting to hide anon posts and comments.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    7 days ago

    It would be basically an imageboard like 4chan. Those have their advantages and disadvantages. I think it should be a thing in principle but communities should be allowed to say they don’t want anonymous posts.

  • bss03@infosec.pub
    3·
    7 days ago

    How would blocking / muting work? I imagine anonymous posts to be, on average, worse that even burner-account posts.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      7 days ago

      pseudonymous, not anonymous, we still know which things were posted by the same person (or rarely people sharing an account) and if someone discovers someone’s IRL identity they know who posted all things that Lemmy user posted

  • xmunk
    42·
    7 days ago

    I’d be in favor of it. With a federated platform it’s impossible to keep someone from spinning up per-interaction accounts so we essentially need to deal with the costs of allowing anonymity anyway. It could be implemented in such a way that your host instance can connect the interaction with an account if there was some advantage to that but banning an account created to post something offensive and a moderator removing an anonymous post that’s offensive are pretty much the same action - and if a particular account was egregiously abusive there are technical ways we could allow the host instance to ban the user without compromising anonymity for other unbanned anonymous posts.

    Oh, anonymous DMs should be absolutely disallowed. That’d just be an open invitation to dick pic spamming but, as nearly any open woman on the internet will tell you dick pic spamming is a constant issue.

    Basically, it really wouldn’t make any kind of abuse easier and even if it was significantly abused to bypass needing to do account sign-ups for trolling there are pretty simple technical solutions to fix it.

  • Libb@jlai.lu
    21·
    7 days ago

    No, thx.

    How would you feel? Why just ask the question?

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    501·
    7 days ago

    Psuedo-anonymity like usernames breeds assholes (See: Basically every comment section/reddit/forum.) but actual anonymity breeds super assholes (See: Basically every chan.)