> Although, am I reading correctly that you are considering HN to be "without anonymity"? No. Sorry if unclear. I categorise HN accounts as pseudonymous with

> Although, am I reading correctly that you are considering HN to be "without anonymity"? No. Sorry if unclear. I categorise HN accounts as pseudonymous with optional real life names. > In the current "persistent pseudonymous" system, what do you think constitutes a "fake account"? What would annoy me is real sockpuppet accounts, controlling more than one account and using it to * upvote ones own comments and postings * astroturf * using it as a strawman to defame opponents (i.e. by running a sock puppet account that seemingly supports some cases while posting bad arguments for that case etc.) * etc Personally I have nothing against using multiple accounts as long as there is a reason (i.e. someone has an account with full name and another that they use when they want to post or comment something that they do not want to reflect back on their real life persona, family and workplace.)