What is the point of posting anonymously?

There are MANY upsides to doing it anonymously, however, one down side is tha someone can post an answer anonymously just to say something rude or off the wall and get away with it : (

Thats what I'm sayinn!.. its like.. if you make a commitment and make an account, you don't have to put up a real name and real pictures!..

but you know what.. people have commitment issues.. lol or they are just here for one quick question or something.. but even if they do that, they don't actually search for that kind of question because MOST LIKELY, it has been asked before!..

Ive seen so many of the same questions!.. 'wat do I say to her'.. 'how to talk to him'.. -__- that's why people ignore those questions because we have answered them before.

But I definitely answer questions that sound similar but are unique.

A disproportionately high number of troll questions come from anonymous accounts

Very rarely do I post anonymously or ask a question as such. I really don't care whether people know it's 'stevo' or not. That's just me.

For me it's just that you can look at someones past answers to questions and there are some questions that I see and would like to answer honestly but don't feel like having it attached to me. So I have answered a couple of questions anonymously.

We'll for one thing, to make it private. To avoid the embarrassment of having strangers know about your live struggles and personal decisions that you feel only a few people or none at all should know about. But by being anonymous, you can get advice and opinions. It's a great feature to also avoid online predators.

i dunno. I'm always worried the guy I'm talking about is going to be on here too, recognize the situation and be like "I KNOW YOU"

i don't know why I do post anonymously, just subconsciously.

I always post anonymously because I enjoy being an anomaly. There is always intrigue in mystery.

I post anonymously sometimes because GaG does keep a record of what you ask/answer and some IRL friends know I come to this site and if you read up on everything I said you could probably figure out it's me based on how I type and what I say. It's a bit paranoid, but I do prefer not to have some of it collected. I will sometimes also do it because I'm being brutally honest and don't feel like getting messages about it just because it's not the answer someone wanted.

Some people might not feel comfortable letting others know what type of problems or questions they have so it's a lot easier to do that with the Anonymous label.
Privacy is very important to a lot of people.

because there are creeps on this site who can stalk you online by finding your ISP address. it's easy to stalk people or hack people's account if you know how to do it. but also, people don't want to be judged.

No one can judge you is the point. There are some people on here who will critisize you or call you names and be mean to you base off of your questions. They study into you and when they see your name on here a lot and may not agree with your questions or form opinions about you, some will use your past questions you posted long ago or something you did a long time ago against you and no one likes to be judged especially by people on here who sometimes act like they know you. When you are anonymous, no one knows who you are and it keeps away those who said mean things before to them cause now they have a cover so those people won't recongnize who they are and comment on there question anymore. oh and yeah you can just block but you never know who else has been studying you or keeping up with your questions so its best to be anonymous if you want to get away with asking questions you know you might get judged on.