Whats up with anonymous works?
Anonymous works are different from orphaned works. This function is designed to allow anonymous challenges/exchanges to be hosted on the Archive. A collection can have rules about anonymity, and if you submit a work to be part of that collection, the collection maintainer would be able to apply those rules to your work. So, for a typical challenge, you might sign up to respond to a prompt by a certain deadline; you’d submit a story to the challenge collection, where it would appear anonymously for a certain period of time; then, on the reveal date, the collection maintainer would reveal everyone’s identity, including yours. If you want to orphan an anonymous work, you can do that too. Anonymous, non-orphaned works don’t have strong anonymity: the collection maintainer, as well as archive staff, will be able to see your pseud even during the anonymity period.
