There are two angles to this, as far as I'm concerned. Because I have no shame either, and am willing to own up to anything I say. However, I have seen, on non-anonymous kink memes, a BNF come in and basically have everything they say fawned over. "Oh, you think my prompt is good? Yay, I can't believe I'm lucky enough to get my prompt filled by YOU!" "This is excellent fic! But since it's you, I'm not surprised!" And so on, and they have friendly chatter back and forth for days. Meanwhile some fan who's new to the fandom gets basically no reaction at all.
(For that matter, I have been a BNF in some small fandoms, and always had to wonder if praise my fics got was just due to the fact it was mine. A completely anonymous kink meme meant that praise was received on the merit of the fic, not the name attached to it, and that did wonders for my self-confidence.)
On the other hand, a hard-nosed policy on anonymity can be a royal pain, too. One fandom, people were routinely bashed as attention whores if they provided, when asked, links to other things they'd written, or used a sockpuppet account to remain anonymous while getting around the annoyance of posting truly anonymously. In the case of at least one artist, whose style was recognizable enough that people always knew when it was her filling a prompt, someone was so jealous and bitter of her art's popularity that they outed her real name. Which drove her from the fandom.
So I think the best way to handle it, really, is to be anonymous on the meme IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, to avoid cliques and BNFs and favoritism. But when it's not really plausible to be anonymous, or if people want to know where they can read/see more by a particular filler, it's stupid for people to continue to demand anonymity (especially for those who fill prompts) one hundred percent of the time. If someone forgets to log out or wants to link to their ff.net account or whatever, no vilifying, darnit.
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Date: 2011-10-08 03:46 pm (UTC)(For that matter, I have been a BNF in some small fandoms, and always had to wonder if praise my fics got was just due to the fact it was mine. A completely anonymous kink meme meant that praise was received on the merit of the fic, not the name attached to it, and that did wonders for my self-confidence.)
On the other hand, a hard-nosed policy on anonymity can be a royal pain, too. One fandom, people were routinely bashed as attention whores if they provided, when asked, links to other things they'd written, or used a sockpuppet account to remain anonymous while getting around the annoyance of posting truly anonymously. In the case of at least one artist, whose style was recognizable enough that people always knew when it was her filling a prompt, someone was so jealous and bitter of her art's popularity that they outed her real name. Which drove her from the fandom.
So I think the best way to handle it, really, is to be anonymous on the meme IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, to avoid cliques and BNFs and favoritism. But when it's not really plausible to be anonymous, or if people want to know where they can read/see more by a particular filler, it's stupid for people to continue to demand anonymity (especially for those who fill prompts) one hundred percent of the time. If someone forgets to log out or wants to link to their ff.net account or whatever, no vilifying, darnit.