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.

In reply to Re^4: Feature Request: Abandon content to Anonymous Monk by SankoR
in thread Feature Request: Abandon content to Anonymous Monk by SankoR

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