When you use the anonymous posting form, your question goes into a queue that is only read by the admins. Your posting is not linked to your username in any way once it goes up on the site, though the admins may know who posted the question. It is posted through an Anonymous user account. There is currently no mechanism for following up anonymously though the admins will post an email to an anonymous thread, as will many other MeFi users. Sometimes people set up disposable email accounts so they can be contacted about an anonymous posting.
(tags: anonymous askme anonyme ) March 6, 2006 - back to questions

Usually anonymous questions are posted within a few days. Some types of questions may not be approved such as illegal, repetitive, trollish, unanswerable or obvious questions, or ones that don't appear to require anonymity. If you have a question about the status of your anonymous question, you can contact mathowie or jessamyn.
(tags: anonyme askmetafilter anonymous askme ) April 20, 2006 - back to questions

We do have a way to anonymize old posts. While doing this does somewhat decrease the value of the questions to the community -- since people answered it with a user in mind and some answers may not make sense -- we'll anonymize old questions if it's important. Contact a mod if you want this done.
(tags: askme anonyme anonymous ) March 28, 2008 - back to questions