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The secret is multiple accounts. I too have a Brand Name Account(tm) I like to float around but it sure as heck isn’t this one. Doing the multiple account thin

The secret is multiple accounts. I too have a Brand Name Account(tm) I like to float around but it sure as heck isn’t this one. Doing the multiple account thing isn’t as easy as it sounds though. Some sites like Reddit make switching between accounts incredibly easy while others aren’t so much. Plus laziness kicks in and soon enough your Brand Name Account gets tainted and you have to consider taking it out back to the dumpster. Such is life I guess.

moehm 2y ago
> Doing the multiple account thing isn’t as easy as it sounds though. Some sites like Reddit make switching between accounts incredibly easy And it's as easy to dox yourself by responding with the wrong account, as I have seen multiple times on Reddit.
- idontlikeirc 2y ago
  This happens a lot with viral-bait accounts. One of the top posts on the UFO board just got caught sockpuppeting this week.
- john_the_writer 2y ago
  trick here.. create different chrome profiles, with different color schemes. Peach is my "nice person" account. Red is for accounts that I want to be a little more argumentative. I do this at work too.. where I have to have different user profiles to emulate working as an admin, staff, client, sub-client. Blue seems adminny :)
  - CRConrad 2y ago
    I do a similar thing with my terminal emulator: Different background colours in PuTTY depending on which server it's connected to. Green for Dev, red for Prod...
sangnoir 2y ago
> The secret is multiple accounts. There was a "show hn" many months ago that did stylometry on HN commenters to show which accounts were most stylistically similar; I ran a throwaway account of mine through it, and it showed my account in the top 3 - which was impressive. Having multiple accounts won't save you when your own word choice, grammar and style can uniquely identify you to anyone sufficiently motivated to link your disparate identities at any point in the future. The author even said their tool was rather basic; IIRC the basis was all pairs similarity on n-grams
- malfist 2y ago
  You wouldn't happen to have a link to that would you? I'd really like to check that out
  - sangnoir 2y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 I can't get the site to load

moehm 2y ago

> Doing the multiple account thing isn’t as easy as it sounds though. Some sites like Reddit make switching between accounts incredibly easy And it's as easy to dox yourself by responding with the wrong account, as I have seen multiple times on Reddit.

idontlikeirc 2y ago
This happens a lot with viral-bait accounts. One of the top posts on the UFO board just got caught sockpuppeting this week.
john_the_writer 2y ago
trick here.. create different chrome profiles, with different color schemes. Peach is my "nice person" account. Red is for accounts that I want to be a little more argumentative. I do this at work too.. where I have to have different user profiles to emulate working as an admin, staff, client, sub-client. Blue seems adminny :)
- CRConrad 2y ago
  I do a similar thing with my terminal emulator: Different background colours in PuTTY depending on which server it's connected to. Green for Dev, red for Prod...

sangnoir 2y ago

> The secret is multiple accounts. There was a "show hn" many months ago that did stylometry on HN commenters to show which accounts were most stylistically similar; I ran a throwaway account of mine through it, and it showed my account in the top 3 - which was impressive. Having multiple accounts won't save you when your own word choice, grammar and style can uniquely identify you to anyone sufficiently motivated to link your disparate identities at any point in the future. The author even said their tool was rather basic; IIRC the basis was all pairs similarity on n-grams

malfist 2y ago
You wouldn't happen to have a link to that would you? I'd really like to check that out
- sangnoir 2y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 I can't get the site to load