Yeah, I was specifically thinking about being able to default anon as a critical de-stressor surrounding YT. Because if I'm assigned to write a story (or meta, or anything) for someone, and they know that I've been assigned, and I for whatever reason fail... that's a lot worse than defaulting silently and a person just knowing that they went to the pinch-hit list.

Because obviously eventually YT is de-anoned, and so worrying if what I wrote is good enough is true of both YT and what you're proposing, and isn't really the issue.

I don't know... I guess I don't really see what you're talking about as a big problem. I tend to dump all my squeeing about the fandoms I'm writing into my reveal post, which ends up being fairly long as a result, but mostly I don't mind not being able to publicly squee.