| | 1 | There are some occasions where it would be valuable for a moderator to have the ability to post anonymously in the support forums. |
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| | 3 | Having this functionality would offer individual moderators some protection from being contacted directly in Slack or "followed home" outside the forums. |
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| | 5 | This would in turn reduce the potential for harassment of moderators, which has occurred before, and which has discouraged some folks from moderating more actively. |
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| | 7 | It would also provide a unified voice to help better educate and familiarize posters with the forum guidelines, and also encourage more replies to remain public. |
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| | 9 | Posting anonymously could be **optional** – and other moderators would still be able to see who made the post, in case any follow-up is needed. |
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| | 11 | Attaching a quick mockup below for one idea of what this could look like on the posting side. |
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| | 13 | (I accidentally removed the original post, re-adding!) |