[hacker256]

This site isn't an anonymous posting forum. If you want to be anonymous you can use an anonymous e-mail account, but for everyone else it's to speak with your name and your voice.

What you're looking for is a different service with different goals, and that doesn't make this one worse at what it is trying to do.

[AnonC]

No need to get defensive. You have basically created a spam attractor for non-technical users by saying that this is suitable for “Grandpa and Grandma” and making them a lot more vulnerable to email scams.

Writing in one’s voice doesn’t need to have an email address attached with it. I can understand using the person’s name. You could do better by not displaying the email address or obfuscating it. Or you could remove that “Grandpa and Grandma” part from your description and say that it’s for those who understand how email addresses in public can get misused.

[hacker256]

This isn't defensive. I'm simply stating that anonymous posting is different from named posting. That said, I will be adding a way to do anonymous posting and unlisted posting today. :-)

Thank you for your suggestions!

[AnonC]

Named posting doesn’t need to expose one’s email address. You could just use the name. That was my point. There is no need to expose anyone’s email address to the world, be they technically knowledgeable people or otherwise.

I still believe your site is harmful to users unless the default is publishing with just the name and no email address, with an option of publishing with the email address if someone really wants to. The current defaults seem inverted.

I’ll stop with this comment since I’ve said enough.

[hacker256]

I updated it to hide name and email by default.

If people wish to expose their name and email, they can include an email signature!

Edit: If you already posted, this page was already archived so you should create a new e-mail address if you want to be pseudoanonymous.

[hacker256]

Unlisted posting is complete. If you send to [e-mail] (or [e-mail]) the post will not show up in new/popular/categories. However, it will still show up in your user view.

If you want it to be visible with a link only and not even show on your user page, you can send to [e-mail].

Anonymous posting is coming next!

[gitgud]

You could implement email like Craigslist do with an "email relay".

That way the users email is hidden with an anonymous alias. But people can still reply to that alias email.

[hacker256]

This is a great idea. I've actually started down this path a bit, and will add the actual email relay tomorrow!