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It's not silly only in proportion to your employer's aggression on the topic. Perhaps there needs to be an account disclaimer checkbox as a standard feature: "

• 0xffff2 6y ago
  It's silly because most employers have no ability to match "0xffff2" or "pbhjpbhj" or "kixiQu". To a person in the real world. I've never identified myself as an employee of my company on this account and I'm certainly not identifying myself as an employee of my company in this post, so since I don't work for the NSA, I post whatever I want, no disclaimer necessary. If for some reason I did want to identify my employer sometimes, it would make infinitely more sense to make a separate account for those times than to attach a meaningless boilerplate disclaimer to every single post I make on Hackernews.
  • kixiQu 6y ago
    Oh you can definitely put together where I work in a few Googles. Not everyone cares equally about maintaining pseudonymity; the boilerplate isn't meaningless if your employer is explicitly requesting it as a CYA.
  • pbhjpbhj 6y ago
    I'm pretty confident I could be doxxed (email me if you like!), I don't really want to play the game of proper anonymity (throwaway on Tor-Browser over an sshuttle "tunnel" is about as far as I'd go but that would be getting pretty silly; hopefully it'll never happen, if it does I hope my disclaimer will be enough to argue unfair dismissal; who knows.
• chucksmash 6y ago
  It'll still be silly then, it'll just be technologically enshrined silliness! I work at a company with a social media policy. My understanding of it (garnered by clicking through the slides as quickly as humanly possible once a year) is that they only want me to consider these sorts of disclosures if I'm speaking in a capacity where people MIGHT mistake what I say as coming from the company. My employer is certainly discoverable from my HN account but there's no more value in me adding such boilerplate to my HN posts than there is me signing emails with my mom the same way.