The funny thing is just the other day I was thinking that one of the best parts of HN is that comments and submissions are evaluated on their merit. Since a use

The funny thing is just the other day I was thinking that one of the best parts of HN is that comments and submissions are evaluated on their merit. Since a users name is relatively obscure and not as identifiable as forums with avatars I never really remember names or associate them with good or bad submissions. To me this seems to be contradictory to the way HN is supposed to work. Maybe (probably) I am reading too much into this but it just seems to be reinforcing a kind of Ad Hominem discrediting of submissions. In fact I think it would probably be more interesting if it went the other way, don't show names at all on submissions. Maybe revel the name only after say 30 minutes from submission time. If HN's goal is to avoid becoming redit/digg... why implement the same ideas as they have?