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Using the same username may allow you to manually poison your own profile to make your data less useful than a shadow profile generated through stylometry
by trinovantes 4y ago
Using the same username may allow you to manually poison your own profile to make your data less useful than a shadow profile generated through stylometry
- Mezzie 4y agoI do this. I have a handle I've been using for 20+ years (not this one and nothing on HN) and I lie about stupid shit rather frequently. I also also create one-off usernames in addition to my 'permanent' name. That way everybody sees the permanent name and assumes I'm too stupid/ignorant to use different names, so nobody ever suspects the other names are me. (Using different emails because I do the same thing with email addresses and - when I can afford it - phone numbers).