Anonymous woots

Tomahawk · 2016-10-03 21:37:40

Woots in an anonymous thread should also be anonymous.

People generally woot to agree with a post, and they may want to show support without their real name being visible, especially if the thread discusses sensitive topics or contains controversial opinions.

Bobithan, Luka504, MartenM, Evilbunny, Xfrogman43, Freckleface, kubapolish, Swarth100, Weirdoverse, SirJosh3917, Kaleb

Pingohits · 2016-10-03 23:27:57

now it won't be fun to make woots the same as the person who wooted them, as it destroys the purpose of anonymous woots

what if we had a woot counter?

kubapolish, AlphaJon, 32OrtonEdge32dh, Xfrogman43, mrjawapa, Dencc, MBlood, Weirdoverse

AlphaJon · 2016-10-04 00:44:40

Having a bunch of random usernames below a post isn't going to provide any meaningful info except the number of people wooting. So I agree with Pingohits' idea of woot counters

32OrtonEdge32dh

Different55 · 2016-10-04 02:43:00

Woot counter would be easier to do from a technical standpoint and since I'm feeling pretty tired and worn out that's probably the option I'd vote for.

Koya · 2016-10-04 05:12:04

What people say as an anonymous user can rest assured if other people publicly support what you say, woots are proof (should be unable to remove a woot after x hours)

Tomahawk · 2016-10-04 17:30:15

The advantage anonymous woots have over a woot counter is that after sleeping more, a certain mod could make them match the anon names of posters in the thread - i.e. if I made a post and was assigned an anonymous name, that same name would be used for any woots I gave other posts in the thread. This way you can better understand the opinions of individual posters, if they woot others.

Yah, it's hard to code what to do if I wooted something and then wrote my first post in that thread. Ideally the code would check if I had wooted any of the other posts, and use that woot name for my post; that name would be randomly generated when I wooted for the first time in the thread.

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