What are you gaining or losing by having an incomplete or anonymous RallyPoint profile?

Nothing either way. If you don't want to let us know where you're coming from, depending on what you say, I may ignore you or debate/agree with you. I accept that many are somewhat paranoid.

I just don't want anything traced back to me that I thought was innocent at the time and someone a year later takes out of context to charge me with something or support an incorrect opinion of me. At the same time this place is one of the only ones where I can get current military information and answers to important questions that I'm worried I can't ask my ROTC instructors about for fear of looking stupid or getting marks against me before I even commission. For example I just now posted a comment about how Donald Trump might not be the worst person ever and earlier I posted a discussion asking about the legality of something that was being asked of my ROTC unit. Either of those things could get me in hot water with people who could punish me for them either unconsciously or consciously. At the same time even earlier I posted a question asking for help deciding which military branch I wanted to join that was instrumental to helping me pick what my goals were. I was about to make a serious mistake and the answers to that question helped me make the right choice for the right reasons. All of the information in my profile is true (except that I should be pre-commission category instead of civilian but that was an error when I made my account rather than something to hide my identity). I intend to make a real account after I commission but we've gotten a lot of lectures about social media at my ROTC unit and had a few cadets kicked out for things that they posted on it. So that's what I personally stay anonymous.

For me, it sends a message that I am complete. I am real. I am responsible.