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I intentionally switch handles when I join a new service / community. I don't think of my handle as my "identity" in any sense - rather, it's more like a licens
by bartonfink 16y ago
I intentionally switch handles when I join a new service / community. I don't think of my handle as my "identity" in any sense - rather, it's more like a license to post whatever thoughts I have at the time. Barton Fink happened to be the most recent movie I watched since I started posting here. It has only a tenuous connection to my real identity, and I'm not particularly vested in it at all. If HN generated random ID's for me on posting, for example, I wouldn't mind.
- elliottcarlson 16y agoI find that an interesting perspective - most people I know have always had some tie to their handle - even if they later discarded it or attempted to keep it as a completely anonymous gate - but to be completely anonymous with random id's I haven't come across before.