[arez]

developed a tool together with a colleague that ket anyone ask anonymous questions to the founders. We had the problem, that the founders wanted to get more people to ask questions in our all-hands meetings and me and my colleague thought it might be that a lot of people are afraid to ask them in front of a big crowd. So we created an easy to where anyone can submit questions anonymously and everyone can up and downvote them. We're both not working at the company anymore, but the tool is still used for 3years

[sethammons]

The anonymous questions for all hands is a problem at our company. We used to have it and some people abused it. Instead of asking hard questions, one or more people used it to attack. "Why is so-and-so even here? They are utterly incapable and a fucking idiot." Or "how can leadership be so stupid?". A couple of bad apple comments came up each all hands so leadership changed it to not be anonymous. We lost out on other great questions, I'm sure, and also lost the toxic ones. People do ask hard questions tied to their names, but I'm sure we are losing other needed questions due to the policy.