Is there such a thing as a personal version of Mumsnet?

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A group of friends would like to share some information which will help us make a group decision. However we don’t want the others to know who contributed what information.

If we were all MN users we could change names and create a thread and each post there, safe in the knowledge that it was all anonymous.

Does anyone know if there is an app that allows you to set up a sort of private Mumsnet-style chat board or survey, where not even the admin knows who is who?

Use Survey Monkey?

I think this might work actually.

freesuggestionbox.com/privacy

Don’t admins know who said what on SM?

I’m intrigued to know what the subject is that you need to be anonymous

There are apps, yolo and sendit.

Yes, they do... We sometimes use it at work for staff surveys and then management look at who said what (it's linked to email addresses). 🙄

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Is this a over-excited phone?! Yes.

Anyway, is this a one off thing for a particular event or something (like going out to dinner where if everyone knows Susan wants to go to the hungry horse that's where you're going...)

Or something, if it's more of a long term thing. Maybe an out there suggestion but could you set up a Discord channel or something - and all have anonymous nicknames? You can then chat freely but no one knowing who 'kupo' is...

Aware though over time you'll probably recognise each other through how you write your messages.

Salary information.

A one-off thing.

Padlet?

Could you set up a dedicated email address and then each person set up an anonymous email address and email the dedicated email address, and then the person managing the dedicated email address could add all the anonymous email addresses to an email conversation and they can all share the salary information using the reply all function?

Easyretro. It isn't exactly designed for it, but it works well for that sort of thing.

Or just a Google doc where you share a link and all go into it from a private browser window? That way you'll just be "Anonymous Llama" or whatever.

Thanks! Some interesting things to follow up. I think we’d all lose the will to live with the anonymous email addresses spiral 😀

Oh I've used Padlet at work and don't know who's said what (as long as posters aren't logged in). If they comment when logged in I can change the name as admin but there's nothing in the background that tells me who anyone is when it's anonymous.

You can use Kik to do this.

I used to belong to a small online group - I think it was set up via a free blog like Wordpress, where you could make all posters anonymous, or give them a number instead of their usual names, so we could post work and give feedback to each other without bias of knowing who had created the work or who was commenting on it.

Is that the sort of thing you mean?

you can use Wire which is an anonymous messaging service

Thanks!

I've set up survey monkey before in work and you can set it up anonymously. There was a box to untick so you didn't record email addresses, but I can't remember exactly how.

pieces of paper and a pen? 😁

Find a trusted, disinterested 'other' person to cool and share info, and promise not to tell?

This. Meet up for dinner - all use the same pen and block capitals.

Ha ha, I can see why you would say that. We’re not all based in the U.K. though.

Kik would be perfect.

I would also say discord, but I’m not sure what info the admin has.