One of the Halloween contest stories, despite the author being displayed as "(Hidden)", is showing up in my My Stream, I assume because it's by one of the authors I follow. If I were willing to go through the hassle of systematically removing authors from my followed authors list and seeing when it disappeared, I could probably figure out exactly which.
Is it worth the trouble? After the contest closes the author names will be revealed anyway.
"After the contest closes" is key there. The author identities are supposed to be hidden during the contest to avoid biasing voters, and My Stream is leaking that information.
I can't read the contest stories or vote anyway, because I'm not a paid member, but if I were, I might well be tempted to bias towards the one story that I know is by one of my followed authors, even if I can't be bothered to figure out exactly which one. And presumably My Stream is doing the same thing for people who can vote.
"After the contest closes" is key there. The author identities are supposed to be hidden during the contest to avoid biasing voters, and My Stream is leaking that information.
Yes, I know. But it's an awful lot of work just to get a name and that's not taking into consideration there are possibly multiple authors in your stream that have taken part in the contest. More work to link an author to a specific story. I don't think anyone is going to do that and Lazeez will probably have a fix for it before the next anonymous contest.