Comment 15 for bug 548021

Hi Dirk,

Thanks, your comments are useful! For the cases you describe, where we want to hide the user's real-life identity, I think the "hide real names" option is the way to go. I've also talked to a teacher here in NZ who assigned arbitrary firstnames and lastnames to her students (i.e. "student one", "student two", etc) to make sure their names stayed hidden.

I do indeed favor this approach of giving the user an "anonymous identity". It maintains community-accountability in the site, while keeping the user's real name hidden.

Cheers,
Aaron