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?

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