Re: Anonymize Usernames for Unbiased Discussions on Bitcointalk! - An Idea
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.
That sounds very, very hard to implement on an aging SMF codebase that can barely crank in patches without introducing other weird bugs.
However, if somebody wanted to post anonymously, wouldn't they just use a forum like 4chan, where everybody is already anonymous? Or a Bitcoin-specific forum modeled off of it. That would be much easier than hacking a forum's source code to introduce anon accounts.