As I don't want that a profile of myself can be easily obtained from my posts, I'm used to first changing my account password to random, so I cannot login anymore into my current user, and then creating a new account. Is this a usual way of behaving in hn?
I'm used to creating weekly HN accounts
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Re: I'm used to creating weekly HN accounts
#2Thanks for letting me know, I was getting worried by all the people here who were starting to sound like you and was beginning to think HN was going to shit. I feel better about the world knowing that your are an outlier.
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#3There are some people who do an account per post, but doing something like that and like what you do assumes a thread model which I don't share. Who is the one who would start making profiles based on HN? What might they aim for? What can they achieve? I don't think that they will make it that far with what I've shared here or even with cross-referencing it with other of my stuff online, so I spare myself the mental effort of churning profiles.
Re: I'm used to creating weekly HN accounts
#4What's wrong with being who you are, openly? Do you have any faith that your serial accounts can't be connected by anyone who cares to do so? In other words, what can you hope to gain with this effort?
FWIW i've been "h2odragon" since 1991, in a series of fora.
Re: I'm used to creating weekly HN accounts
#5There are some people who do an account per post, but doing something like that and like what you do assumes a thread model which I don't share. Who is the one who would start making profiles based on HN? What might they aim for? What can they achieve? I don't think that they will make it that far with what I've shared here or even with cross-referencing it with other of my stuff online, so I spare myself the mental…
I think any LLM could be trained to make profiles from the HN posts and submissions of each user, don't you agree?
Re: I'm used to creating weekly HN accounts
#6Thanks for letting me know, I was getting worried by all the people here who were starting to sound like you and was beginning to think HN was going to shit. I feel better about the world knowing that your are an outlier.
Perhaps changing accounts is a way of not having to respond to posts like yours?
Re: I'm used to creating weekly HN accounts
#7Thanks for letting me know, I was getting worried by all the people here who were starting to sound like you and was beginning to think HN was going to shit. I feel better about the world knowing that your are an outlier.
Perhaps changing accounts is a way of not having to respond to posts like yours?
Apparently not. Self control would probably work better.
Re: I'm used to creating weekly HN accounts
#8What's wrong with being who you are, openly? Do you have any faith that your serial accounts can't be connected by anyone who cares to do so? In other words, what can you hope to gain with this effort? FWIW i've been "h2odragon" since 1991, in a series of fora.
Every post has many readers, now and in the future, and you never know what their mental situation might be like. For many people the value of a persistent identity isn't worth the risk.
I used to post under a pseudonym, but one day a person stalked through that account until they found my (pseudonymous) website, then my name, then called my employer with the goal of getting me fired. They did this because they were upset I had written a programming example in Haskell. My employer at the time was a defense contractor and they luckily (for me) decided to put the event into the "unknown third-party is threatening a TS/SCI employee" bucket, with a response as subtle as might be expected.
Unfortunately, there are people in other circumstances who face a legitimate risk of losing their job and/or career if they attract attention from some passing lunatic. That's why it's considered good practice to avoid tying too much sensitive information together in one account.
Nowadays I post under my name on (semi-)professional forums like HN, and anonymously elsewhere. No pseudonyms, because they provide a false sense of security.
Re: I'm used to creating weekly HN accounts
#9https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please
> don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should
> have an identity that others can relate to.
> dang on Sept 15, 2018
>
> HN can't be a community without members. Disembodied comments are
> not community members. No one is required to use their real name
> here, but users need to have some consistent identity for others
> to relate to. Otherwise we might as well have no usernames and no
> community at all.Re: I'm used to creating weekly HN accounts
#10There are some people who do an account per post, but doing something like that and like what you do assumes a thread model which I don't share. Who is the one who would start making profiles based on HN? What might they aim for? What can they achieve? I don't think that they will make it that far with what I've shared here or even with cross-referencing it with other of my stuff online, so I spare myself the mental…
I think any LLM could be trained to make profiles from the HN posts and submissions of each user, don't you agree?
yes, and then what? mimik us on lobste.rs?