I've got a mini project idea mostly as a thought experiment—

amin@polymaths.social

Imagine a wall with a thousand mailboxes on it, none of them locked. Anyone can leave a letter in any box, and anyone can read any letters that have been left. People can have one-on-one conversations if they know the same box number, or they can go to a commonly-chosen number like "1" and have big group discussions. No one has any real way of proving their identity, just social convention/pressure.

Maybe it's me being a COMM student and a nerd about this stuff, but I would be fascinated to see the community culture that would grow around this wall and what conventions would form.

I'm considering experimenting with making a small website version of this. Would be lightweight to code and host; the main time commitment would be moderation. (I'd have people make accounts for spam prevention and code of conduct enforcement reasons, but wouldn't show who posts in any public-facing way.)

Would others be interested in seeing what happens if I did this? (Also, does anyone have ideas of what to name such a project?)