AnonymousChat allows guild members to chat anonymously. The message is not announced to the default guild chat, therefore, other players also need this addon in order to read the messages.

Usage

/anon message

Example

/anon this is an anonymous broadcast

Settings

To show all possible settings, type

/anonymouschat

Activation / Deactivation

To display messages, type

/anonymouschat enable

To hide messages, type

/anonymouschat disable

To toggle the (de)activation, type

/anonymouschat toggle

Sound

To play a sound when receiving a message, type

/anonymouschat sound

Use the same command to disable the sound again. The addon uses the default Blizzard whisper sound.

Timestamp

To display the time of the message, type

/anonymouschat timestamp

Use the same command to disable the timestamp again. The format is [HH:mm].

Channel

To display messages in a different chat window, type

/anonymouschat channel CHANNEL

where CHANNEL is the ID of the channel.

To get the ID of the prefered channel, type

/anonymouschat channel

Example

If you want to display messages in chat window 4, type

/anonymouschat channel 4

User Threshold

You can change the required number of other users that are currently using this addon before sending a message (in order to strengthen your anonymity level, see Wikipedia: k-anonymity).

To change the current user threshold, type

/anonymouschat users USERS

where USERS is the number of other users that need to be online.

To show the current user threshold, type

/anonymouschat users

Example

If you want to send messages only if there are at least five other potential users currently active you can use

/anonymouschat users 5

Colors

You can change the color of the addon, the color of messages of other people and the color of your own messages. To change the color of messages, type

/anonymouschat messagecolor COLOR

where COLOR is the name of the color you want. Available colors are:

• white
• yellow
• magenta
• red
• gray
• cyan
• green
• blue
• black

To show the current color, type

/anonymouschat messagecolor

Example

To display messages in red, type

/anonymouschat messagecolor red

Use

/anonymouschat basecolor red

and

/anonymouschat ownmessagecolor red

to change the color of the addon or the color of your own messages, respectively.

Do

• express constructive criticism
• give feedback to other people or the raid leader
• conduct surveys
• ask the raid leader to explain the boss again

Don't

• be rude or insult other players
• spam messages
• send offensive messages

Security

Suppose Alice, Bob and Charly are using this addon. Alice wants to send an anonymous message. The addon sends the message privately to a random user, e.g. Bob basically saying "I am forwarding this message to you, handle it.". Bob then flips a coin and either announces the message to the entire guild or forwards it to another, random user, e.g. Charly, repeating the cycle until a user announces the message. In this example, Bob does not know whether Alice was the true author of the message or Charly originally sent the message to Alice. Furthermore, just because Bob announces a message does not mean that he is the author of the message. The message cannot be attributed to you as long as there is at least one other honest player using this addon.

Keep in mind that other users may still recognize you by the way you write or the emojis you frequently use.