Option to show anonymous commenters in UI

[pluja]

I would like to be able to show annonymous commenters in the UI, for example:

• (anon) username

Versus a logged in user:

• username

[paskal]

I don't think adding (anon) is a good way to handle it, I think adding an icon (a glyph) before the name would work better.

[pluja]

I like the idea of an icon. Maybe something like this: https://fontawesome.com/icons/user-secret?s=solid&f=classic

or this

https://fontawesome.com/icons/mask?s=solid&f=classic

[akellbl4]

I think adding an icon (a glyph) before the name would work better

We already have avatar so why would we need to add additional icon if we can use avatar for this purpose?

[paskal]

As we have unique IDs per name + IP of the user, it might be useful to distinguish between users with the same name but different IDs. I propose to come up with some recognisable anonymous avatar image but keep backgrounds (and their colours) generated and tied to the ID of the user.