Re^3: Feature Request: Abandon content to Anonymous Monk

if given the option to claim AM comments, the opposite

adding differentiation of authorship adds value. the opposite does... the opposite.

Reddit ... removes the username and other information from everything
full disassociation from the content having originated from a single account

I'm not familiar with how Reddit does things... When you say "removes the username and other information", what is that replaced with? Are all posts reassigned to some "anonymous coward" type of user?

Anyone concerned with their privacy

Is privacy what you're concerned about? If so, why wouldn't you create your user with a username not linkable to you? You do that with email accounts you open, right?
PerlMonks only knows what you tell it, and we have no "real identity" requirements like Farcebook does (or used to).

have their content attributed to Anonymous Monk seems much more easy going than the current options

Again, I'd ask you to elaborate. Asking the gods to anonymize your account and sitting back waiting for them to do it seems pretty easy to me...

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Re^4: Feature Request: Abandon content to Anonymous Monk by SankoR (Prior) on Jan 04, 2025 at 05:32 UTC
I'm not familiar with how Reddit does things... When you say "removes the username and other information", what is that replaced with? Are all posts reassigned to some "anonymous coward" type of user? Essentially, yes. Usernames (which are usually links to the user's profile) are displayed as "[deleted]" on all posts, comments, and private chat messages and are no longer links to a user profile. User profiles, which usually list of all posts and comments created, no longer exist either after deletion. The content of the posts and comments is still public but it's impossible to connect a comment made by a deleted user with another comment found elsewhere on Reddit by the same deleted user. If someone has requested claiming anonymous content often enough that it's now a feature, it seemed natural to me that someone has probably wanted the opposite and it must be possible to do on the backend of PerlMonks. And I don't know how many times I have to repeat myself, but I am not (or at least I wasn't originally...) speaking for myself. I'm honestly a little weirded out that this is getting such harsh pushpack and that I'm being asked to explain a hypothetical person's definition of privacy. I've learned my lesson and will be much more careful the next time I see someone here ask for feedback.	[reply]
Re^5: Feature Request: Abandon content to Anonymous Monk by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 04, 2025 at 18:01 UTC
Thing is, I am obliged to perpetuate de facto policies established by previous gods such as vroom and tye, who was able to think about and explain the ideas much more cogently than I am. The bottom line is that reassigning ownership of a monk's posts to Anonymous Monk is completely unprecedented and I am reluctant to establish that precedent, at least without a groundswell of popular demand. Anonymizing an account, otoh, has some precedent. You still haven't made a case for why that approach is unsatisfactory.	[reply]