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How to Shout-out Anonymously in Slack?

Slack How-To Guide
Updated 2026

📣 How to Shout-out Anonymously in Slack?

Direct Answer / Summary:

To send anonymous peer recognitions and Kudos in Slack, install OpenSay from opensay.co (free tier available) and type /anon shoutout. Pick a teammate, select positive praise tags, and submit. OpenSay uses AI to verify positive sentiment and generates an image recognition card in the channel.

Anonymous shout-outs allow team members to recognize, praise or give kudos to others. They look like this:

Anonymous Shout-out

We use AI to allow only for positive sentiment.

The 🌈 Karma in the image is dynamically updated which makes it easy to download and embed the shout-out in presentations, documents, etc.

You can shout-out anonymously in Slack in three ways:

  1. Type /anon shoutout, choose a channel, select a person to shout-out to and type your message.

  2. Type /anon, click on Shout-out Anonymously (or simply type /anon shoutout).

  3. Click the ⚡ (shortcuts button) and choose Shout-out Anonymously.

The shout-out dialog looks like this:

Anonymous Shout-out Dialog

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