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We have now implemented Anonymous posting in the "What's on Your Mind" forum, and I'm also considering to expand it to the entire forums.
That way, is someone has some question they want to ask, they can ask it anonymously. To help prevent abuse, forum admins and check a log and see who is posting. The biggest potential problem is spam, of course.
This may be fine actually.
But what can really improve the number of posts is, not just posting anonymously after logging in. Real anonymous post without logging in. This is what exactly perlmonks.org is following.
You dont have to login, you can directly post. There are a lot of ways by which spams can be avoided... May be by captcha, or moderation or something else.
Now the posts count is 53000, which is 300 posts between my previous posts and this post. And really it is not simple N number of posts, most of them are very useful.... Have a look at their mechanisms ( hope most of you already know ), many interesting things are there to attract people.. ( like Levels ).
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Reasons are:
1. A new user dont have to spend time in registering in the forum.
2. Already registered user can avoid even moderators or admins from knowing that he has only posted the question.
3. And most of the times, anonymous user is used for answering.
But all these has to be done with care, so am putting into the discussion here..
( but am able to understand that while writing down this now, it may not work out for unix.com, where we always speak about more strictness here.... )