Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thus proving the only actually anonymous community in practice is 4chan, and that’s why it’s so toxic.
If you define “toxic” as “people disagreeing with you”, sure. That was what the entire internet was like until maybe 2005.
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#222My nearest match is only at 0.406. It'd be interesting to see who the most unique commenters are, but it's also quite possible it wouldn't be flattering.
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#224I'm 0.566 correlated with logfromblammo -- and while we are definitely not the same person, I could easily imagine writing a sentence such as:
"For some bizarre reason, management has not yet assigned a task to their programmer underlings to automated themselves out of existence. I can't imagine why."
which is theirs, not mine, from about a year ago. I like that.
On the other hand, I'm nearly as correlated with peterwwillis: 0.5485 -- who has no comments and no submissions.
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#225See also: https://serhack.me/articles/unveiling-anonymous-author-stylo...
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#226Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#227On one hand, thank you for showing us all how easy it is to make something like this. No doubt organizations with more resources already have more sophisticated systems in the same vein. On the other hand, can we agree that this product is unethical? In many cases, when a person uses an alt, it is a direct and strong signal that they do not wish their other posts to be associated. So this product is circumventing the…
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#229Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#230Well now I'm self conscious about my closest match being an 0.34 when so many other people are reporting much closer matches with accounts that aren't alts. Do I write weirdly?