In Drupal, the administrator may grant the anonymous user the right to create new content (so you don't need this module to allow anonymous users to create content). However, allowing anonymous publishing may have the side-effect of making the site wide open to spammers. This module may be used to mitigate that. Also, it implements a privacy enhancing technology (PET) that allows authenticated users publish anonymously.

The major features of Anonymous Publishing are:

  1. Users may publish content without first registering an account at the site, provided they supply a vaild email address and click on an activation link sent them in a verification email (some call this the “craigslist model”). To use this feature enable the Anonymous Publishing CL submodule.
  2. “Lazy” registration, where the user creates the content first and can then “claim” the content after registering on the site. If you enable this submodule, there will be a tab named “Claim anonymous posts” on the profile page of users with “unclaimed” content they created on the site before they registered. To use this feature enable the Anonymous Publishing LR submodule.
  3. Authenticated users may publish content that appear to be published by Anonymous (i.e. they need to be authenticated and logged in to publish, but the content they tag as anonymous will never be publicly associated with their user name or other identity). To use this feature enable the Anonymous Publishing PET submodule.
  4. The pseudo-fields “email” and “byline” will be exposed to Views if the Anonymous Publishing Views submodule is enabled.

More specifically, it may:

Limitations: