The current 100% anonymity of UR reporters makes it impossible for editors to detect reporting patterns of specific Wazers. If URs showed a fully anonymized but user-unique handle for the reporter, editors could identify problematic or abusive patterns. This would save editors time and energy, and allow them easily to report such patterns to community leadership or to Waze for potential action.

Specifically, editors have long suspected that certain Wazers may: (1) repeatedly flag an issue, or a kind of issue, on which they refuse to accept the editing community's past analysis; (2) submit multiple URs for no clear reason, yet never engage when approached for clarification; or (3) traumatize responding editors with a pattern of strongly negative language. Being able to detect these patterns would support and protect the editing community and free up time for more productive work, without compromising reporters' anonymity.

Critically, the "Closed by" signature would have to be adjusted to ensure that, if the UR is closed by the reporter, the anonymized handle is given rather than the true user ID (or it could simply say "Closed by Reporter").