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I am working on a MOD to make a forum a "Suggestion Box", and I am looking for advice. I have some of the background code already completed, but I am debating whether or not to go as far as to have a "blank" user that the forum uses for all posts in the specified forum. This would make it totally anonymous.
The other option is to simply hide all of the user's personal information when the posts are displayed. The down side to this method is that if someone is posting a complaint about the admins/mods, their MEMBER_ID is still stored in the database. So without a whole lot of work, a vengeful admin could find out who posted.
I am leaning towards the blank user, but thought I'd see what people here had to say on the subject before doing that part of it.<
The other option is to simply hide all of the user's personal information when the posts are displayed. The down side to this method is that if someone is posting a complaint about the admins/mods, their MEMBER_ID is still stored in the database. So without a whole lot of work, a vengeful admin could find out who posted.
I am leaning towards the blank user, but thought I'd see what people here had to say on the subject before doing that part of it.<