Why do we each have a name? On a website, it is so readers can associate what a commenter is saying to what that person has said before. Any community where peo

Why do we each have a name? On a website, it is so readers can associate what a commenter is saying to what that person has said before. Any community where people are going to encounter each other more than once has a use for names. Here, look, patio11 just said the following: "Trust me on this: no. I used to have ABingo [yadda yadda]" [1]. Because it's patio11, I do trust him more, at least on this topic. And when he mentions ABingo, yeah, that's right, he has an A/B testing package he made for himself, that he opened sourced to people. When someone I know is a maker talks about the domain in which they make things, they have more credibility to me. This is not celebrity worship (I have my own gig, thanks), it's just paying more attention to the people I find interesting. Hiding names and points with a Chrome extension is a cool hack, but there's no way I'd ever want to use it myself. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996587 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996587