[rogerrogerr]

This refusal to use people’s names comes across as childish and distracts from your intended point.

[ibejoeb]

And it diminishes search accuracy. You can publish a reasonable criticism, but if people don't see it, you're not changing minds.

[amingilani]

To me it feels pragmatic.

I find it more concerning that mass surveillance has come to the point where someone can’t safely express their frankly-not-that-controversial opinions without obfuscating the subject’s name.

[rogerrogerr]

So you think that the state has massive surveillance systems (definitely) that it is willing to use maliciously (maybe), but in the age of LLMs is fooled by swapping some letters around? Seems like the threat model is unlikely to line up with reality.

[mikestorrent]

I'm happy to name Peter Thiel in a comment here. What's he going to do, come and drip forehead sweat at me?

[edgyquant]

It hasn’t come to that though, you can freely express that persons point with no repercussions outside of maybe not getting a check one day from the person you hate

[gib444]

It's a useful deterrent against defenders (actual or bots) coming and drowning people out

[trinsic2]

That is a good idea. Yeah I often wonder if people that actually are not apart of this community just troll by searches.