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This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by meruru »

dontbenebby wrote: post #20
dang wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course it is. We don't ask for names. We don't even have a way for users to give us their name, unless they choose to publish it via their username or the About field of their profile.

Thanks! I thought maybe "HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to." meant our nyms should point to a real person, and that the account mentioned in the article was terminated for being registered via Tor. I try to find the middle ground with this account. You can probably find out who I am, but I hope people will respect it's important to have nyms where we can have informal convos. (…

I have several completely anonymous accounts on HN all registered and used through Tor. It has never been a problem.

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by schoen »

dang wrote: post #8
schoen wrote: post #4

Since this also mentions the HN account https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=voidnull could any HN moderator comment on the status of that account?

It's fine and was always fine. Probably it got affected by a software filter at some point when it was new, but a moderator marked it legit so that wouldn't happen again.

Thanks!

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by espeed »

Analyze voidnull's use of pronouns and do a sim search over other users' accounts on HN and the Web.

"Our most forgettable words, such as pronouns and prepositions, can be the most revealing: their patterns are as distinctive as fingerprints." [1] - Prof James W. Pennebaker

[1] https://www.secretlifeofpronouns.com

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by ohithereyou »

ALittleLight wrote: post #23

I don't understand the part about 1 dollar donations. Surely that can't be enough money to do much of anything given how rare I imagine it is for people to create an account. (Though I'm personally tempted to.)

The $1 donation is just there to prevent people from mass-creating new accounts. It can be waived if someone vouches for you.

The non-ARPA and above users are somewhat limited in what they can do[0].

I've been a card-carrying metaSDF user since 2006 and it's a wonderful $HOME away from home.

[0] https://sdf.org/?faq?MEMBERS?01

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by ohithereyou »

ikeboy wrote: post #17

Will they block an account for spam? Government requests? High usage rates? Etc

They explain their policies here[0]. Notable is:

>Any illegal activities which includes, but certainly isn't limited to spamming, portflooding, portscanning, unauthorised connections to remote hosts and any sort of scam can really not be tolerated here. Why? Because there are many here on this system that can suffer from this sort of abuse. If you want to use SDF, you really have to care about this system and the people here. If you don't want to care, then you really shouldn't use this resource.

[0] https://sdf.org/?faq?BASICS?04

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by mirimir »

meruru wrote: post #21
dontbenebby wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I thought maybe "HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to." meant our nyms should point to a real person, and that the account mentioned in the article was terminated for being registered via Tor. I try to find the middle ground with this account. You can probably find out who I am, but I hope people will respect it's important to have nyms where we can have informal convos. (…

I have several completely anonymous accounts on HN all registered and used through Tor. It has never been a problem.

Did you need to request that accounts created via Tor be un-shadow-banned?

Re: This Page Is Anonymous (2013)

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Post by mygo »

> I did not lick the envelope

So what if he did? Even if we had his DNA, we wouldn’t know whose DNA it is. It would be as useful as finding a key on the ground without knowing which house it unlocks.

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