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Makes me wonder what comments here would be like if names weren't shown until a couple of hours posting.
by te_platt 15y ago
Makes me wonder what comments here would be like if names weren't shown until a couple of hours posting.
- city41 15y agoI made a reddit subreddit that did this. I used CSS to hide names and comment scores (yes people can still see them if they want, it was just a prototype). The overall response was pretty negative.
- shii 15y agoLink to said subreddit?
- city41 15y agoHeh, should have included that :) http://www.reddit.com/r/hidden/ http://www.reddit.com/r/hidden/
- StavrosK 15y agoI changed everyone's name to "Spartacus" over at f7u12. Nobody seemed to mind much.
- city41 15y agoYeah but f7u12 is one of the most popular subreddits with its own purpose. I made /r/hidden expressly to experiment with anonymity. I showed it to a good number of people and asked their opinion, whether they'd use it (assuming it got popular), etc and almost everyone told me that either a) the anonymity would be irrelevant to them or b) they'd prefer to not be anonymous so they could "enjoy" their karma.
- StavrosK 15y agoOh, definitely, I'm just throwing that out there as a data point of the experiment in a subreddit with thousands of subscribers.
- eavc 15y agoI think the problem might be that reddit is already as anonymous as someone wants it to be, so that alone isn't a feature. Where it's a cool idea is when the anonymity is used to nullify influence of prominent users for a community that has that as a problem. You'd need a sufficiently interesting topic with that need, though.