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I tried changing my writing style on my different personas and it is extremely difficult to keep up with. On one I'd never capitalize anything, another I would
by RKearney 6y ago
I tried changing my writing style on my different personas and it is extremely difficult to keep up with. On one I'd never capitalize anything, another I would never use apostrophes, and then I had one that always used the wrong form of they're/their/there or to/too. Despite all those efforts, I could never consistently change my vocabulary and I did have someone call out a post of mine and link it to secondary accounts. I ended up ignoring the allegation and I never heard from the person again.
If there was some service to normalize, or better yet randomize writing styles, I'd love to know about them.
- ghufran_syed 6y agoI don’t think you actually need to change the writing style, you just need to make sure that the corpus of writing for each and every identity is small. Then the error bounds on the probability that any particular piece of writing is by the same author as another piece of writing on the internet will be so wide as to effectively make such analysis useless. Ideally, any site like reddit that allows pseudonymity would have a super lightweight way of creating multiple parallel new usernames for you to post under, with a way for you to see a coherent view of everything your multiple identities have posted, but where to everyone else, each identity looks like a separate user.