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In my opinion the widespread use of pseudoanonymous accounts on Hacker News prevents it from becoming like Quora, which to me seem entirely about personal brand
by rz2k 6y ago
In my opinion the widespread use of pseudoanonymous accounts on Hacker News prevents it from becoming like Quora, which to me seem entirely about personal brand marketing rather than an exchange of ideas.
When people do identify themselves here it's almost always some relevant context. The move to hiding vote totals probably helped, too.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoAnonymous is fine, as long as you don't change who you are every week. That's usually what throwaway accounts are used for, and why I wrongly assumed that this user was using a throwaway account.