Can philosophy respect be earned by having a closed, anonymous history ?

I don't play no "ego game" j153e ... at least I don't-try-to as evidenced by my open

history here.

Its the RELIGIOUS "ego gaming" which I have a problem with, as Evidenced

before now.

And the fault like I think with SUBJECTIVES who may-be-so-driven by religious

faith as to be unable to TELL BAD PHILOSOPHY from something better.

And to answer the other criticism where proof-of-one's so called "competence"

is required.....

Please look at my answer-and-question history here in the philosophy category.

There you may find that competence, or not... (depending on whether any of

my efforts there have reached your demanding "standard of proof").

P.s.  I haven't as yet put all that dual info into the further order of "proved" or

        "not proved" order...

         Not yet got around to that....  

With a proviso that the question as stated is paradoxical (anonymity ~ = unknown for all historical time, and not simply on Y!A forum...not even perhaps for those simplistically playing an ego game); thus, the few genuine philosophers noted below are imho both deserving of study ("respect") and imho are comparatively understudied.  The metric used here is "By their fruits you shall know them."

Louis Claude de St Martin; found his way to Illuminism of the kind Suhrawardi found as rx for mere rationalism;

Franklin Merrell-Wolff; highly educated and realized; lived apart on a mountain;

Gunther Siegmund Stern ("Stern" being too Jewish for his editor, so Stern changed it to Anders ("other" or "different")); very insightful about what he called the "Promethean gap"--the academic gap between the Source (e.g., Husserl's or Descartes' God-awareness and likeness) and the academicism that cools the energy into a less-authentic handling of the original insight(s)) at the level of discovery/insight (similar to e.g. Moses and some later interpreters; Jesus and some later Church fathers; etc.);

Franz Rosenzweig; brilliant ideas; "The Star of Redemption;"

Nicholas of Autrecourt; developed Hume's perspective in medieval Europe;

Francois d'Aguilon; his "The Six Books of Optics," illustrated by Peter Paul Rubens, influenced Christiaan Huygens and Girard Desargues (a founder of projective geometry).  Huygens' father Constantijn compared d'Aguilon to Plato and Archimedes;

Saadia is not especially well-known today, but was the first Jew to "successfully" fuse (not confuse) Judaism and rational philosophy (Philo had attempted to do so).

Background is irrelevant if you make a stupid, uneducated statement. Proof of your competence is not as important as what you do with it.