Anonymous mode about parabol

[mattkrick]

I think this may be dangerous.
Let's say I write something anonymous like "I think Bartosz is a jerk". Then, I come to my senses & realize I overreacted. I want to delete my anonymous comment... but i can't because I don't own the comment.

[Dschoordsch]

For notifications we can safely set the author to null because it links to the comments. For reflections and comments I think it would be best to not allow endless editing, but after a phase ends, set all the anonymous authors to null.
I personally would not like to have a situation where we can write Georg is a jerk anonymously and then a day later just delete it.
If I accidentally posted something private like a password or similar, I can understand the need for this, but that should be a short time window.

[mattkrick]

immutability is real nice & i love the extra privacy, plus I'm all for calling something "done"!
that said, if there's anything i've learned as we've built this, it's that users LOVE hitting undo. We've caved in some cases, like resetting a meeting to an earlier phase. We've compromised in other cases, like adding extra friction when ending a meeting instead of letting them un-end it. if we remove authorId, we're taking functionality away, so the thing we get for it better be GOOD. On a more serious note, this is primary data that no one else in the world has. We've gotta be really cautious with it, but if used responsibly we could answer really interesting questions with the data. Not saying we will, but if we remove the ability to, we're decreasing the value of our data

[jordanh]

I'm going to close this one to the icebox for now (but I'm glad there was a discussion here). If there is still tension, feel free to reopen it