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I'm pretty sure this has been suggested before, but it would be nice if there was a way to hide the authorship of a submission to regular users. Perhaps you want it to be a surprise, perhaps you don't want it tied to your name, perhaps for some kind of contest or battle with anonymous voting. Whatever reason you have, I think the option of anonymity is better than psuedo-anonymity through nicknames (remember reregging isn't allowed).
You can in fact anonymize your name from the submission by asking a team leader. This thread from Announcements explains it better.
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Originally posted by Katerpie
You can in fact anonymize your name from the submission by asking a team leader. This thread from Announcements explains it better.

seems like I asked for the same thing at the time
i think you can get away with submitting with "Anonymous" occupying the author field rather than your username? the only giveaway at that point is the "submitted by" text, which is temporary. i feel like the cases of wanting something archived on smwc but not wanting your username publicly attached to it at all would be insanely rare, for example re:anon voting people wait until voting is over before submitting anyway; the wait is mildly inconvenient at worst, and the feedback from those events can be valuable for polish

even if someone's very specific circumstances were such that they wished to (or had to) submit something totally anonymously, i imagine they could get a mod to upload it for them and it wouldn't be too much of an issue
Maybe there's a way that when a submission is submitted as Anonymous the submitted by text could be marked as staff only so it's invisible to almost everyone. It's by far not 100% perfect but does allow the amount of people to actually see it drastically reduced.