I honestly don't see a point in making C3 anonimous. If anything it'd destroy a C3's entire purpose. C3 exists to give everyone an equal opportunity for impressions and feedback on their stuff (i think). Of course something like request threads are kind of a black sheep in that regard.
In a nutshell about what threads get more posts though: Threads that encourage more input from others, what means every thread that is not simply just showing off a thing you made, will of course get more posts in them because of their very nature. That is why request threads are so popular, because they solely rely on the interaction from others.
Originally posted by anonimzwxUsually during C3, the most of the prizes are only recieved by popular people from smwc, also the most of the post recieve only 1 or 2 comments and very few views.
A really big counter argument to this is one or two C3's ago when a lurker showed off a really nice ASM patch (iirc it was about yoshi's colors or something?) and that thread really got a lot of traction even though noone knew how they were before that. Of course a user's "fame" will always affect the posting quantity a bit but it's not impossible for someone less known to get attention if they deserve it.
To be clear though, I'm not excusing shitpost threads. Unless there is anything in them that deems them worthy a part of the C3 Convention I think staff should get a bit more strict on moderating threads with no worthy content in them. Here I have
two examples of what i think good shitpost c3 threads are. I won't go out of my way to look for a bad one for the sake of not potentially calling anyone out for anything.
Anonimous submissions could be something for a potential tourney or something of that nature. A solution I would have for making C3 more "fair" would be adding more trophies for underlooked content. Maybe branch out the "most underlooked" into "most underlooked hack/hacking resource/non-smw item" or something like that.
In all honesty though there should never be any sense of contest or competition during C3 or anything creative ever unless it is a contest or tourney like VLDC.