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billme | 5 years ago

Good bye HN!

Dang (HN’s mod) just asked me to be identifiable and given that’s not a good fit for me, this will be my last post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23441542

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>Dang (HN’s mod) just asked me to be identifiable

But that's not what they said. Were you asked to use your real name? Nothing stopping you keeping to one, anonymous sounding username

owaty|5 years ago

I see where billme is coming from. I don't do it here (because I don't comment much, because I mostly use https://hackerweb.app for reading), but I do it on reddit.

Once you've left enough comments, a motivated party has a good chance of identifying you based on the intersection of your (relatively uncommon) interests, various bits and pieces of the personal info that you tend to drop in comments etc.

yesenadam|5 years ago

Your protest might be effective if (as you said you don't) you used the same username for a while and people knew who you are.

I have a feeling you'll be back soon anyway.

samanator|5 years ago

I don't know who you are but please stay! You seem to have a lot to offer and in a very positive way.

EDIT: When I wrote this reply your comment was at the top. 2 minutes later it was at the bottom of the comment section. Looks like it was manually moved to the bottom of the comments by a moderator :(

yesenadam|5 years ago

Or new comments appear at the top, and after a couple of downvotes it went to the bottom. No conspiracy theory needed.