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I can’t imagine how, unless you only had 20 of them or something?
Back when I was a TA, I had an average of 120 students per semester and we didn’t necessarily grade our own students’ work (it was usually divided by topic).
So if I’m grading 120 assignments - or worse, 480 pieces of exam assessment- and only 25% of them are from students I regularly interact with, I don’t think my subconscious has any idea 99% of the time.
Even with smaller classes… you’re just seeing too many people with similar thoughts and styles over the course of a year for any of it to imprint on your mind that deeply. Occasionally it’s going to be obvious, but I still think removing a level of bias through anonymizing is best practice.
This is my dilemma too! Most of the threads in my instance are politics.
It doesn’t help that I’m actually quite interested in politics.
I just don’t like discussing them online because of the minority of people can’t remain civil.