thoughts on anonymity

[krait]

Someone just created a kinkmeme for a small fandom I've long been a fan of, though never written in.

Why, you may ask, is that sentence not followed by an exclamation point?

The creator(s) have made the meme mandatorily anon-only.

This has happened with at least one other kinkmeme for a small(ish) fandom I'm part of, and I found that it somehow puts me off. I've thought about it several times, and I can't exactly pin down why I dislike it, aside from It's probably a combination of laziness and lack of shame. I may have come to better conclusions in the past, but right now I am sleep deprived and under-caffeinated, so I cannot recall them or re-think them out. (Insert cat macro here: "I thunk yu guyz sum meta, but I forgetted it"?)

I'm 100% for people having the right to be anonymous on the internet, and that includes kinkmemes! But being told that I have to be anonymous results in serious levels of Do Not Want.

Am I the only person in the universe who has this reaction to mandatory-anon policies? Is there someone out there who has the ability to prod my grey matter and figure out why this irks me?


Thoughts, anyone?

Comments

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's odd that this irks you-like you said, the option of anonymity is one thing, but imposing at as a rule is just...random.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

If you're not brave enough to stand by what you post/write/say, don't fucking say it. Anon is for cowards.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

Ironically, it's being presented as an attempt to avoid shaming and BNF-wankery.

[minutia-r.livejournal.com]

I don't know about your reasons, but I'm less likely to participate in anonymous fic communities because a) if I read something I like, how am I supposed to go and read everything else the author's written? And b) if someone likes something I write, how are they supposed to go and read everything else I've written?

I suppose I'm just an attention whore. And I like context. Without context, how can you have a community?

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

I admit: the former is definitely a factor for me, too! Not to mention the more basic, "how am I/they supposed to go and friend them/me so we can babble excitedly about the thing we have discovered we have in common?"

I like context, and I like meeting fanish people, and I especially like taking the credit for what I've done. :D

[kurokaze-89.livejournal.com]

Mandatory for fic-writing is... yeah. Maybe if they edited the rule to allow a name-reveal after a WIP is complete/reposted?