1. I greatly prefer smart clients over stupid ones; they're much easier to work with and much more appreciative.
2. As writers, neither Pheelyks nor I have any access to customer information on company systems. Obviously, we already know all the order numbers of any assignments we take and we don't have any involvement in other writers' assignments, much less in any problems other writers may have with customers over a paper. Pheelyks and ResearchPro are the only other company writers I know and that's only because, like me, they also use their company IDs as their S/Ns on this forum.
3. Pheelyks and I have always openly admitted what companies we write for. I don't know WB except as a fellow member of this forum and I certainly don't "work" for her.
the notion is not that the customer be asked, but be required.
No customer of any site is "required" to discuss any assignment on this forum. Every essay site has a messaging system for customers to contact writers and customer service reps.
If customers choose to discuss their assignments on this open forum, they should be required to disclose the order number because that's the only way to prevent dirtbags (like Stu4) from creating phony accounts and using them to pretend to be "customers" disappointed by reputable essay companies they can't compete with honestly and fairly on the quality of their work.
As Pheelyks pointed out, the order number has absolutely no meaning outside the company system. As WB pointed out, any details of the typical complaint about any assignment would provide enough information for any company reps reading these threads to figure out which order it was if they really wanted to. As I've pointed out, you really need to make up your mind between accusations: If this forum is maintained by an essay company as you've suggested, that company could simply ID any customer by matching IPs to forum posts.
There's simply no other way to prevent dirtbags (like Stu4) from starting threads under phony accounts saying "Company XYZ ripped me off and here's my story." Posting the order # allows entirely false, made-up complaints to be identified so nobody has to figure out which complaints are real and which ones are 100% BS.