[rented_mule]

Not calling it anonymous is an improvement. Before I retired, I read many "anonymous" surveys taken by my reports. Any free-form text in the survey that goes beyond a sentence fragment usually made it obvious who wrote it. At least in the case of my teams, writing styles tended to be pretty distinct, as were the things each person cared about enough to write at any length. I tried to ignore the clues, but it was usually so obvious that it jumped out at me. The people administering such things insisted that anonymous meant their name wasn't on it, so it was fair to call it that.

[chii]

A lot of people simply imagines that anonymity means un-identifiable. It's far from true, but i think some are honestly making the mistake, rather than being nefarious.