Should SimilarWorlds add an "Anonymous Confessions" feature? 👻 🤫

@SatanBurger I remember how EP claimed to be truly anonymous. I was thinking, "There is no such thing as "anonymous" if someone posts certain things on the web."

Then when it closed, there were explanations about how it could not remain anonymous. Something like that. I was thinking, "Well what did they expect?"

@JohnOlinger81 I imagine, I IMAGINE, that is the entire reason they invented SW. To make a group page for the mythology character Lilith.

The very dreams, the very vision of the SW admins, is to create such a stellar page.
I am sure this dream will come to reality now that you have asked.

@FlowersInHerHair yes to disabling comments

@FlowersInHerHair A vote for disabling comments as well

I concur to disabling comments as well.

@FreestyleArt It got very nasty at times in that section. Lots of people got warnings too, bc although it was anonymous to us it wasn't to them and you kind of knew who it was bc of the warnings.

@FreestyleArt Jake (former ep admin) had told me that was one of their biggest headaches for moderation. They took it fown for that reason.

@Fungirlmmm and will you hear my confessions?

@PerfectionOfTheHeart I didn't create a 2nd account but I was thinking that too--that a lot of people do exactly what you do as a work-around for anonymous posting.

@PerfectionOfTheHeart Yes. And nearly everyone assumes the confessions will be about other members, when some may need it for RL issues and this will be their private way of unloading for catharsis.

@HootyTheNightOwl Best comment here, and I approve 100%

@HootyTheNightOwl 👍🏽

@NativePortlander1970 I remember that being my first outlet when I joined EP. I was able to express what was happening in my life when I didn’t feel comfortable ever doing so. At times, it was even a game, arguing back and forth with friends I made and trying to guess which was them.
Those who use it to be nasty can still be reported.

@Sunrises ah-ha! Well when all those call outs come, we'll know who it is, and so we'll call you out 😁

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP we’ll see lol

@DancingStarGoddess agreed

right everyone loves to pretend to be a two-goody shoes but morals here are at the very least skewed. The ones opposing are very likely to view them anyway!

@Chickie Spot on.

@Magenta That makes 0.0 sense. Let's take you as an example. I could be wrong, but I strongly (STRONGLY) suspect your REAL name is not Magenta. So, you essentially are already anonymous by your own choice. If I attempted to find out where you live or who your neighbours are to expose you, it would be nearly impossible for me to find someone off-screen who knows, "Magenta." Unlike me, you have already chosen to be anonymous by using a fake name. You already have the protective cloak that comes with an assumed name.

In the news business, when a source is open to revealing information but wants to remain anonymous, as a last resort we will not name the source or use terminology "an unnamed source" which weakens the credibility of the information. Instead, we offer to hide the source's face, disguise his/her voice, or assign a name that is not the source's real name... something like... oh I don't know... something like "Magenta."

You have already chosen to be anonymous as is your right and within the functional capability already afforded to you. In my case, I have chosen to not be anonymous by using my real name, but in both cases we both are fairly protected from being revealed, just to different degrees... you at maximum efficiency, me at something less than that.

My concern is you have taken your online identity as "Magenta" as something that is equal to the life you lead under your "real" name. That's dangerous. If you need healing that you can't achieve under a made-up screen name, then an "Anonymous" tag to hide behind is only going to accentuate your personal problem.

Finally, in the unlikely event your real name is Magenta, then the simple solution is to create a new made-up name rather that feeling safety by blending yourself in with every other poor frightened soul who wants to use a common "Anonymous" label that literally lumps all of you into a single collective that will make each of your individual posts meaningless to the community. If you have that high security need for that order of magnitude privacy, then you will be better served to favour recording your issues in a private, not community, journal.

@MarkPaul Actually it takes very little to find out who someone is in RL, believe me on that.

But yes, sure, most all of us use screen names. We have families, businesses and other things in RL we want to keep private or protect. Plus we don't want to open ourselves up to nefarious people. Internet is really not safe.

Yet, we (long term members) are not truly anonymous still, certainly not at maximum efficiency, as we all have friends that know a bit more personal things, plus all the years we have shared and posted here reveals a certain amount. Some may want to be 100% anonymous about some private matters not even their friends or other members here know. They may not want those things to be known to all about them. So confessing anonymously will be beneficial to them.

Anyway, I'm not going to argue the point. I was mostly speaking in a general sense, not sure I would even use the feature.

@Magenta Okay, "Magenta"... sure. 🙄

@NerdyPotato Agreed