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>Dang (HN’s mod) just asked me to be identifiable But that's not what they said. Were you asked to use your real name? Nothing stopping you keeping to one, ano
by amaccuish 6y ago
>Dang (HN’s mod) just asked me to be identifiable
But that's not what they said. Were you asked to use your real name? Nothing stopping you keeping to one, anonymous sounding username
- owaty 6y agoI see where billme is coming from. I don't do it here (because I don't comment much, because I mostly use https://hackerweb.app https://hackerweb.app for reading), but I do it on reddit. Once you've left enough comments, a motivated party has a good chance of identifying you based on the intersection of your (relatively uncommon) interests, various bits and pieces of the personal info that you tend to drop in comments etc.