It could be made so that a nickname is automatically selected per-page. This way threads he comments in could be followed. A small pool of 5 or so names could be reused so that he couldn't be exposed by finding the user that has just been created.
Why stop there? Why not have a week where everyone's user id is displayed as a randomly generated syllables based on the hash of their current user id and the current topic id?
Example implementation:
A checkbox for manual override could also be added.