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AbhishekIlindra well, yes, there is the option to post without having to register or log in, but that is not the same as the feature that is requested here. E.g. being registered and logged in but post "as anonymous" (which also in the case of facebook is kinda misleading, the user posting "as anonymous" is hopefully aware that he/she is not anonymous at all, at least not to facebook 😉).
But in short: No, there is no such feature OOB in Khoros, but it could probably be done through some customization, the question would be how "deep" the fake "anonymity" should go, should it simply be something that is "displayed" in the UI or should it go futher including API requests etc. In the latter case it would get quite tricky as there is simply always a user id associated with any post (the author)...
If it should really go that deep the only way I could imagine right now would be to basically intercept (or rather [re]direct) the post form in case that checkbox/switch is active and send the data to a custom endpoint which would then post the content on behalf of the user as a global/system wide Anonymous user which you would create separately, e.g. all posts from any registered user that activates this anon-switch would be posted from a single global user which would not really allow any "linking" to the original user once it's done. But that comes of course with a bunch of "issues" you might want to consider:
- No notifications for the original author
- No gamification impact (e.g. kudos, metrics etc.) for the original author
- No editing of the post once it's made
- Images and attachments are problematic too as they are uploaded before the post is actually sent/saved.
- You would also have to consider how to exclude that global Anon-user from leaderboards etc. as it would probably skew those as it's collectively getting Kudos/Solutions etc. for all it's "proxied" posts...
- and probably a bunch more I'm not thinking of right now...
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