Hey folks.
Anonymous comments were intended to be used sparingly for discussing captions in sensitive situations. For example, a caption author might use an anon comment to reply to a comment on their caption during the voting period.
Otherwise, I think people should avoid anonymity and own their comments. Now that people can (optionally) receive notifications about comments on their captions, I want us to avoid throwaway anon comments (e.g. comments that should have been captions), as this will quickly create irritating notification spam.
So there’s now a limit of three anon comments per month, applied to users that have a below average votes-per-comment ratio. Everyone else will be unaffected by this change.
The quota is displayed as follows:
When the quota has run out:
