It's somewhat of a meme that various rationalist or post-rationalist social media bios have a link to https://admonymous.co to give the person anonymous feedback.

I've always been curious on how often this is actually used, and if the advice could have just been given face to face, and if the advice was taken and something was improved.

Any anecdotes in either direction? Specifics would be extra fun, if you want to give them.

  • My admonymous is in my Twitter bio, and I've also sent it to a Discord server with some college friends.

    I've received a few jokes, a recommendation to zoom in my profile picture (which I did), some compliments on personality traits which weren't actionable but were nice to hear and helped me understand myself, and one concerning confession of jealousy which was not actionable.

    Surprisingly, no hate mail! The only thing that disturbed me was a nonsensical vulgar joke.

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  • So, not on that website but I am involved with a yearly media awards thing and we do have an anonymous feedback form, and some of the suggestions are specifically very useful. Especially since some of the criticism is pretty harsh. That said the feedback is anonymous but specifically from individuals who have been involved in the process (as opposed to just some random guy), which filters it a great deal.

    Never used that website though, so I couldn't say.

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  • It looks like I made an account back in 2017, and I vaguely remember posting the link on Facebook? but the only message I see is "test test" which is probably one I left myself lol. So not much traction in my case.

    I did teach a bunch of classes back in grad school and always enjoyed getting mid-quarter and end-of-semester anonymous feedback from students, some of which was pretty useful in helping me understand their perspectives on those courses. Kept a little running document with the positive comments, which was nice to look back on from time to time.

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  • Not admonymous but a student org I was in charge of in college sent out an anonymous feedback form once. 

    Was pretty brutal but ultimately useful because it let people say the things they were too uncomfortable to say. Went a long way towards establishing trust with the group and we got a lot of praise for our leadership by year’s end

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  • Thanks u/Liface, never heard of it but love the idea! I just made myself an account!

    https://www.admonymous.co/isha-yiras-hashem

    Feels a bit self absorbed, but also kind of useful. It also seems likely I'll never get any feedback but I'll never pass up a chance to make people feel safe communicating with me.

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  • Yes, but back when student evaluations on paper were anonymous and mandatory. (A different prof would come in and collect them, and would not let you leave until you handed them one which was filled out). Spontaneous and individual feedback has never been useful.

    The most useful thing was when 30%+ of the respondents had the same theme.

    There was also "your hair sucks" though, which was not useful.

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