I think I can illustrate with an example. Let me know if this helps!
Jane submits her narrative to the post. One paragraph in her narrative describes an incident that many people would recognize as her. Jane wants to mention this incident, but does not want to associate it with the rest of her narrative, because then people who could recognize that single incident, will know that the rest of the narrative is also hers. She pulls out the identifiable incident to be placed in a “Anonymous Comments” section that is not linked to the rest of her narrative. It is still somewhat anonymous, in that her name isn’t on it, and only the people who already know the story realize it is hers. But they can not trace knowledge of that particular story back to the rest of her narrative.
The post layout would be something like:
Jane’s (pseudonym) narrative: Whee! I’m a narrative.
Emily’s narrative: Yay! I’m Emily’s narrative. Pretend there are more narratives. We like pretending!
Anonymous comments:
<insert comment that Stacey doesn’t want associated with>
etc
By “narrative”, I am referring to the bulk of whatever Jane wrote. Probably items such as answering the questions upvoted in the forum. It would be everything Jane submitted to me, modulo the paragraph or two that she wanted placed in the “Comments” section instead, because they are incidents known to be hers.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the phrase “Anonymous Comments”. The narratives are also anonymous. The Comments section is what allows them to be so, by having somewhere else to place Obviously-Jane material. In fact, the Comments section is probably even LESS anonymous than the narratives, because they are composed of identifiable material that you don’t want associated with your super-anonymous narrative....
Um.....feel free to suggest better words than “Narrative” or “Comments section”… I don’t think I’m explaining well. :P
I think I can illustrate with an example. Let me know if this helps!
Jane submits her narrative to the post. One paragraph in her narrative describes an incident that many people would recognize as her. Jane wants to mention this incident, but does not want to associate it with the rest of her narrative, because then people who could recognize that single incident, will know that the rest of the narrative is also hers. She pulls out the identifiable incident to be placed in a “Anonymous Comments” section that is not linked to the rest of her narrative. It is still somewhat anonymous, in that her name isn’t on it, and only the people who already know the story realize it is hers. But they can not trace knowledge of that particular story back to the rest of her narrative.
The post layout would be something like:
Okay. But what is the content of “whee, I’m a narrative”?
All of the other stuff you have to say that wouldn’t be easily identified as something said by you.
By “narrative”, I am referring to the bulk of whatever Jane wrote. Probably items such as answering the questions upvoted in the forum. It would be everything Jane submitted to me, modulo the paragraph or two that she wanted placed in the “Comments” section instead, because they are incidents known to be hers.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the phrase “Anonymous Comments”. The narratives are also anonymous. The Comments section is what allows them to be so, by having somewhere else to place Obviously-Jane material. In fact, the Comments section is probably even LESS anonymous than the narratives, because they are composed of identifiable material that you don’t want associated with your super-anonymous narrative....
Um.....feel free to suggest better words than “Narrative” or “Comments section”… I don’t think I’m explaining well. :P