Because of the "new account" option, I would be wary of only having it in the Approval nodelet -- since newbies don't see that node by default, as far as I remember. And XP nodelet seems the wrong place, though it would be something easily visible.

Testing briefly as AnonyMonk, I see that Node Status nodelet is visible anonymously, so I am guessing it might be one of the default nodelets for new users as well. (Mine was off, but I probably turned it off years ago without having thought about it.) Assuming it is on by default, it seems like a good place, with the Approval nodelet as a good second place.

I'd also think that adding logic could give reasonable decision criteria for also adding the "Claim this anonymous post" link that shows up at the top of the post:

• if logged-in IP Address == IP Address of the anonymonk who posted the current anonymous post
  ⇒ probably more visible to a newbie than one of the nodelets, since newbies might not have fully explored all the contents of the default nodelets, let alone nodelets they don't yet know about.
• ... OR if both Approval and NodeStatus nodelets are turned off
  ⇒ in order to catch those experienced monks who had previously customized their nodelets sidebsar by removing both, before this feature was implemented.

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