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Originally Posted by carenkh  Hmmmm... tho if many people saw posts from "anon", they might want to be able to post anonymously, leading to more requests along those lines. |
This is an important point. If it's **too** easy to "take it back" than people are likely to be less careful about what they post, because they know the natural consequences can be counter-acted. On the other-hand, I'm not sure people should lose their jobs (or lose sleep thinking they will lose their jobs) over something they posted on the internet in a moment of weakness.
What if the name wasn't anonymous but rather something like "I thought better of it in the morning" or "TMI". As for the making it hard--the begging thing isn't so bad. My first thought was to have people write an essay about why they want the post re-named and what they will do to avoid such posting in the future. We could also have a rule saying each user only gets 1 (or 2) Mulligans. Again, I'm not a moderator, so I don't know if this makes sense based on your current level of work. I also tend to make solutions more complicated than they need to be so there maybe a simpler solution out there.