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Weird, I wonder what percent of HN users are actually looking at a user name when posting a reply, I personally don't even read a username of a person who I rep
by usaphp 13y ago
Weird, I wonder what percent of HN users are actually looking at a user name when posting a reply, I personally don't even read a username of a person who I reply to, never mind looking for any male/female meanings in it.
But because you posted this sort of comment I actually read your username for the first time :)
- rhizome 13y agoOf what possible use would a percentage of that be?
- jaredsohn 13y agoIt is relevant to the subject of the post. (If nobody looks at usernames, then the issue cited in the post doesn't matter.) Personally, I at least look at who I am responding to (especially when I disagree with them; sometimes the person you're responding to has readily-apparent expertise that you'd feel foolish disagreeing with.)
- lstamour 13y agoTrue. I also tend to look at usernames when a commenter annoys me, just to see if it's a troll who is camping out on a thread waiting to say the same things again. But... By then I've made up my mind what I'm going to say, and whether the troll's name is Jack or Jane isn't going to change that.
- YokoZar 13y agoIt would put some useful bounds on the behavior. If only 1% of people look at usernames when posting replies, she could conclude it's a very small subset of people generating this nonsense. If everyone does, we don't learn much at all.
- anaphor 13y agosounds like it's time for an eye tracking experiment
- GhotiFish 13y agowhat kind of name is usaphp ?! :P