[SevenNation]

> ... This site works primarily by analyzing for each user the frequencies of the most common words and phrases in the English language. Accordingly, the easiest way to avoid being identified is to simply use different words than you ordinarily would when writing. More sophisticated models than the one I made can use punctuation, comma usage, and capitalization to identify you so try alternating those as well. Services like Quillbot can help with you this but depending on your circmstances you may not want to send your writings to a third party service.

HN offers many other threads which could be tied together, including:

- time of posting

- ratio of replies to top-level comments

- comments being mainly upvoted or downvoted

- sentiment (mostly angry, dismissive, questioning, etc.)

- most common topics (keyword analysis of post being replied to)

- ratio of new posting to post replies

- first-to-comment on a post

- lone comment on a post

- etc...

It seems very likely that sooner or later every pseudonym for posting content will get discovered and linked. The lesson here is don't post anything that would cause you undue shame or harm if linked directly to your legal name.