Yes, sometimes I don't want people to know I am the one asking the question.

It would probably lead to all sorts of abuse of the system, so I think it may not be a good idea. good question though.

Yes. I think when AB was first established, the founders never truly took into account it's potential to become the kind of social community that it is today, they assumed that it would be virtually anonymous by default because not many people would be well known or regular on the site. I think it's time that got an adjustment.

Yes, I think so.

Yeah...if you wan't to ask a really embarrassing question, like I do some times (but usually just end up looking it up in the bible "Woman, know your body" - lol)

I think there should be an option, but I think it needs to be limited to maybe 3 anonymous questions a week...that way people can't go through the entire dictionary asking ''what's the definition of...'' without people knowing who's doing it. Or, you should earn the right to have more ''anonymous questions'' the higher up the levels you get. Otherwise we could have a situation where a troll creates 4 accounts and uses their total of 12 anonymous questions to ask abusive things about other users. Perhaps if they couldn't post anonymous questions until they hit a certain level it would help to limit accounts being created for this purpose. Similarly...the questions should perhaps be limited to certain categories where the sensitive topics arise most, such as ''relationships'', ''adult'', and ''health and fitness''. In the ''old days'' questions were all anonymous automatically. I think it was only 2.0 that brought this feature out where you saw who asked what. There never used to be problems with the anonymous feature, but since AB has developed and its user base has expanded I could see a few users taking advantage of the anonymity, like asking ''Who here hates X?''. I also think (though this mightn't be a popular idea) that CLs should be able to see who asked what, regardless of whether they posted it anonymously. That way it's easier for us to deal with someone who is abusing other users through the anonymous question feature.

It would be a helpful feature through which to ask a potentially embarrassing or personal question. Still, it would remove a certain amount of accountability from people. It's bad enough we have drive by downrating by anonymous people too weak to defend their view. I wonder if the site might not get out of hand. Right now, I think there should not be a feature like that, but it's worth looking into.

I can see this causing more harm than good. Besides, what in the world could be so embarrassing? The only questions I would think might be too embarrassing I would ask my close friends or a doctor, certainly not a bunch of strangers on a public venue.

I think that would be great. Maybe it would stop all the "sock puppet" outrage. If we could ask personal or embarrassing questions anonymously there would really be on need to create a sock puppet in the first place.

I guess in some ways it would be good, but if your asking something that would embarrass you that bad, maybe you should be talking to close friends instead of strangers. I think it would probably start out ok, but it would eventually get out of hand.

I think this is a fantastic idea, there are lots of questions I am to bashful to ask. Yes!