Quote from: Joel_Jantsen on November 26, 2024, 09:25:12 PM

In Bitcointalk, discussions can sometimes be influenced by biases—whether it’s familiarity with a username, reputation, or preconceived notions about a member.

I like the idea, and I've thought about how an anonymous discussion would be before, but: what you call "biases", I call pattern recognition. If a known troll posts something, I know it's not worth the time to read it.

Based on your screenshots, changing the name isn't enough. You should also remove the Rank, coins, Activity, Merit, Avatar, personal text and Trust score. And the usernames shouldn't be shown in quotes. But if someone quotes a user, the forum database should still store the correct quote for others to avoid turning it into plagiarism.

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on November 27, 2024, 02:25:52 AM

Ah, icopress....the days of being able to post as an anonymous guest are long gone. Not sure when Theymos did away with that

It must have been because of spam. You can't ban anonymous guests any other way.

Quote from: vapourminer on November 27, 2024, 12:10:56 PM

i didnt think you ever could post as a guest or anonymous account, i thought those accounts here were regular accounts and manually changed by theymos for whatever reason at some point. not sure though.

As far as I know, anonymous posts were really possible in the early days of the forum.

How about a board where no usernames are shown at all? To prevent spam, let's add some Rank restrictions, and only allow completely anonymous posts there. You'll need to have a hidden post history for this. But as much as this be a really cool feature, it's probably easier to just create an alt account if you want to post anonymously.