# Is an anon mode helpful for Balancer?

**URL:** <https://forum.balancer.fi/t/is-an-anon-mode-helpful-for-balancer/5468>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [December 18, 2023, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/is-an-anon-mode-helpful-for-balancer/5468 "2023-12-18T12:07:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![skyfoxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@skyfoxx](https://forum.balancer.fi/u/skyfoxx)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/is-an-anon-mode-helpful-for-balancer/5468/1 "2023-12-18T12:07:40Z")

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I have been researching how DAOs make decisions and I am curious about **anonymity**. Since this feature is possible on [discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-anonymous-mode-to-reply-or-create-topics/240039) and is [easy to enable](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-and-configure-anonymous-mode/155638):

1. Have we considered enabling it here
2. If yes, why, if not, why not?

My thesis is that optional anonymity would allow users to communicate candidly without needing to create a throwaway account, and would love your feedback on this.

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**Author:** ![Barstool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Barstool](https://forum.balancer.fi/u/Barstool)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/is-an-anon-mode-helpful-for-balancer/5468/2 "2023-12-19T01:43:57Z")

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We make desicions by posting information here and voting on it with locked tokens (anyone can post here with only email and password)…there is no need for anon when blockchain is all cleartext. Anyone sending private info would use pgp.