forced_anon chat

Imagine this: you load up a 4chan chat page, and you're connected to another user to chat one on one. Completely at random, with no traces of identity whatsoever. That's it. There could be a button to get a new person if you really don't like who you're talking to or you've seen them before, or you could just hit F5. In the true spirit of Anonymous, you could talk about anything in complete freedom.

I think that could be pretty awesome (and also pretty fail, but such is the way of all things chan), and it's an idea that I've had in the back of my mind for a while. I don't have the wherewithal to make it happen, however, so by /img/'s recommendation I'm here pitching it to /prog/ in the hope that someone will get inspired and make this happen. I'd really like to see it made real. I have to imagine that it would be very simple to make, although finding a good host and getting people to use it is another matter.

Anyone's interest piqued?

I'm not a programmer, just a /b/tard, but I thought I'd stop by to post my opinion.

I think this is a good idea, but one-on-one is dumb.  To me, the whole point of Anonymous isn't just not having names, it's not having individual identities.  In order for this to happen, there must be many people, and there must be no way to tell who is saying what.  When you are talking to a single person, you know that everything that isn't said by you must be said by him, and as you talk you build up an image of what that person is like, thus making him no longer Anonymous.  However, if there were multiple people in a room, all with the same screename (Anonymous), you really wouldn't know who you are talking to, making things much more interesting.

Of course, having too many people in a room would make things too hectic, but having too few would make it too easy to tell who's who.  I'd guess around 12 or so people per room would be about right.  I think it'd be much better if the program just kept adding people to the same room until there were more than 12 or whatever people online.  Assuming this got popular and there were multiple rooms of people at once, you could use the same method of ditching to switch rooms if you got bored of the current room's convo; however, the software would not inform other chatters of users entering or leaving the room, nor would it display the number of people in the room at any given time.

Although come to think of it, the system I am describing is pretty close to what /b/ already is...