> but not have those answers associated publicly with that account Correct! Joshua, thank you for the response. I was going to reach out and point you to this

> but not have those answers associated publicly with that account Correct! Joshua, thank you for the response. I was going to reach out and point you to this sub-thread, so you saved me time. There are some excellent programmers I know who would like to post answers on SO/SE without being able to trace the source of answers to them. The reasons can be many: some dont want to be bothered with random people tracking them down and contacting them to as involved as having the ability to say (as an example): "ahem, don't depend on this API because it's going to be deprecated in the next 3 months". I am sure there are other useful reasons. People might be concerned about misuse and spam, but I have been told Smoke Detector has been doing a pretty good job with that. A random idea: SO is full of developers who are ready to give back. Why don't you ask the community how they can implement a solution that is not too bad? Thank you again for the comment. Really appreciate the thoughts.