What's the point of the option of submitting a question anonymously? Why do people use this *all the time?

Questions asked anonymously can have a purpose...don't get me wrong I wish they were not here and most of them are garbage but since they are certainly here to stay we must use them in a positive and constructive way. If one is page manager then anonymous questions can be used to promote any or all of the pages one manages. In my eyes there is no other reason to ask a question anonymously.

Promotion of a managed page with anonymous questions? It can be done correctly. First we should go to the page we are the manager of and from that page ask an interesting and useful question that we are genuinely looking for an answer to and then post that question anonymously.

Once posted we should have an obligation to answer the same question we just asked as thoroughly and accurately as at all possible. We should do this because that question will end up ON the page we are asking it from and others who visit that page may see that question and go to it if they have a need for that information... which they likely will as we have made sure the anonymous question was relevant, interesting, AND our answer to it was helpful, complete, and accurate. To me this is the only point in asking an anonymous question.

Edit~ people do this all the time because many of the people that get to Mahalo come in through Google or other search engines and are not actual Mahalo members. They also ask anonymous question wastefully because they are being malicious. And even if every page manager asked one anonymous question a week from every page they manage we would still end up with thousands and thousands of anonymous questions but if done correctly by a page manager this can actually add value to Mahalo instead of subtract like in the more dubious or fleeting ways described above.

So they can ask a stupid question without having the accountability of looking stupid. The evidence to support this comes in the form of comparing the level of thought put into assigned versus anonymous questions. The anonymous ones also tend to have a lot of typos and aren't worded very clearly.

They do it very often because they aren't often sure they are asking good questions and because people tend to want to be lazy as often as possible. It's difficult to come up with an articulate, clarified, well-written question. It's even more difficult to intelligently facilitate a question.

I don't have a source for this because I have never submitted an anonymous question. It's just my guess based on what I think I know about human nature.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.