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Couldn't you also be identified to a certain probability based on your writing style (stylometry)? I remember reading something about that years ago. Makes me
by wakkaflokka 10y ago
Couldn't you also be identified to a certain probability based on your writing style (stylometry)? I remember reading something about that years ago.
Makes me think someone should make a Chrome extension that will re-write everything someone posts based on the concepts they are trying to get across. To avoid being identified via stylometry.
- privong 10y agoI don't know about the Chrome extension, but "anonymouth" is one such tool: https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth https://github.com/psal/anonymouth https://github.com/psal/anonymouth
- mirimir 10y agoNone of my other personas post very much in public. At times, I've been active in other languages, with very different styles.
- dingaling 10y agoI find that stylometry is one of the easier barriers to overcome. For example, one pseudonym can persistently make a grammatical error ( e.g. failing to capitalise proper nouns ) and another can use UK English spellings. And then there's the general 'vibe' of the forum which shapes how a pseduonym writes. If I were to write the same thing on HN versus IRC I would hope that the styles would be very different. What's really difficult is comparmentalising information, so that even on the same website two pseudonyms don't demonstrate that they have the same knowledge. Is it worth the bother? Possibly not, but I find it also makes me concentrate on what I'm writing.
- mirimir 10y agoI never use multiple personas on the same site. It's just too hard to avoid linkage. And, on principle, I don't use sockpuppets.