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I'm a ghostbuster
Probably Louis lol
Probably Louis lol
We had voted on prompts for 2025 at the old site. They change every year, and these were what we came up with this time around. I sorted them by month so that people could plan ahead. That way you could work on, let's say, October's contest now, if you had an idea, and it would be ready to post when the time came. It's so that no one is surprised by a contest prompt that they would like to participate in, but they don't have time that week to put anything together.
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The anonymous option is only available for contest entries. You won't be able to be use it any place else. We have it for the sole purpose of submitting contest entries, though it appears to have been designed for more sensitive applications. I don't think other forums are running witness protection programs or providing tele-health, but it was built to conceal identity.
Everything is basically the same as old anonymizer except there's a button you can push to toggle it on and off. It defaults to On so you actively have to turn it Off. That's annoying but it's the best we have at the moment.
Mods have a permission on/off switch to be able to see who posted anonymously or not. Given that it will only be used for the sole purpose of submitting contest entries, I can't see why we would need to see who's posting. I'm sure there could be some crazy emergency that required an early reveal, so we would still have it available. Something we have to discuss. We were just playing around with it today. Every mod does have the power to reveal an anonymous user, though. The problem is that once the member is revealed, they can't be re-anonymized. It's dumb but computers are dumb.
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playing along in the anonywobblizer environment.
Could you please clarify - will our stories be automatically anonymized - or do the entrants have to click on that box?
The box will automatically be checked to yes, but the user can screw it up themselves by unchecking the box. No way around it.
@thirdwind @Seven Crowns
maybe something like this can be added to the Flash Fiction and Short Story contest rules:
Posting to the contest without the Anonymizer on will result in disqualification.
Yes, I think you're right. It's just a minor update to the rules, just emphasizing not to uncheck that button.
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Now that we know the button's there, is it reasonable to expect us not to click it? I, for one, will need a third hand to swat away the other two.
haha, true
Testing Eleventeen, Triple Infinity, Minus Nothing Point Five
Nope. Not seeing the hide box. Of course I'm too stupid to spell html, so I'm probably missing something...
Nope. Not seeing the hide box. Of course I'm too stupid to spell html, so I'm probably missing something...
you only get it in the actual contests... otherwise people trundle up on fork trucks and play with it
They took it back off this thread
Dang Nabbit.
Let's hope not. I wish there was a way to lock it, but there isn't. The software is very simple and user-friendly, which giveth and taketh away. The logic is very straightforward, with everything being "yes, do this" or "no, don't do this." In this case, "yes, default box checked" or "no, default box not checked." But then the humans take over. In my experience building POS systems, any button than can be pushed will be pushed. It is what it is.
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