Jocelyn H.

I think it also ties back to the platform you're on and how people inherently behave on them. Facebook, Twitter, Discord are more platforms where folks come in flames ablazin' about their perspectives so you're more likely to see people who abuse anon posting. Vs most people are on Slack for work or work-related reasons. There's a different mindset there and you're less likely to see abuse of anon posting. I'm sure it still exists but I'd wager it's a much lower percentage. But that's not really Paul's question either! My take is that you should be able to help people whether or not they're anon. You can still jump in and help the person by replying to the thread publicly.

So I'd say take a pulse check of your community. Do people generally follow the guidelines and post in the spirit of the community? Or do some folks like to break the rules and will they abuse the anon option to do so without repercussion?

In general, I'm strongly aligned with Nikki & Scott here. The one thing that I will call out is that recently in a FB group I'm in, someone(s) was abusing the Anon feature and posting things against the group rules/guidelines consistently (as in, reminded it was not appropriate, deleted, reposted knowing it wasn't allowed). They were able to remove the person because the admins knew who was posting it (FB groups show who the anon posters are to admins and not members).

oh and if we can't get the full directory, is this something we can hide for now? it's weird to me to have a partial directory up