This is Greg, I designed the site. I can tell you that if someone replies to your anonymous forum, the creator of the topic will get an email notification that someone replied to their forum. However, the email does NOT contain the picture or member screen name or any other identifying information. The email is sent from divebuddy and NOT from the person that replied to your forum.
If for some reason you do get this information in an email notification about a reply to one of your anonymous forums, please bring it to my attention immediately. But all my code and all my tests indicate that no information is given out in the email notification.
So YES, the Anonymous forum category is to be anonymous. Any errors should be brought to my attention. And I feel it’s very OK to have an anonymous category on divebuddy. It doesn’t mean you up to anything sneaky and you don’t need to be reported. Sometimes things in this industry are better said without your name associated with it. It helps to get an honest opinion from someone and those opinions may help improve the scuba industry.
Thanks, Greg.