why is my username not exactly equal to 1?
https://stylometry.net/user?username=julienreszka
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#42Seems pretty spot-on to me. I tried it with two accounts I was already certain were alts - based on other factors like favorite topics and common enemies as well as style/tone - and the top hits for both were the ones I would have expected.
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#43Love a little NLP project on a public dataset - thanks for sharing!
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#44This is an evil website. We won’t have any anonymity soon. The highest match is my years old banned account that I forgot about. Where did you get the data from?
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#45why is my username not exactly equal to 1? https://stylometry.net/user?username=julienreszka
Python/floating point rounding error. It doesn't mean anything.
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#46Not today. You fail, I win.
Nice. Just out of curiosity are you taking any countermeasures or varying your writing style across accounts in any way?
My second closest match was 0.35 but searching people where they have matches 0.5-0.75 I suspect that's mostly to do with number of posts leading to better statistics.
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#47Nice work! Thank you, of course I plugged in the obvious HN usernames
Edit to add;
Would be nice to have the https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=username links included.
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#48How much writing do you need to analyze results? Would changing account every X sentences eliminate this?
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#49Make a fundraiser and start doing it for other sites.
It would be possible for Reddit because Pushshift.io archives all the comments there and Reddit is still pretty small. I'd probably need to make things a lot faster. Doing it on a specific subreddit would be very feasible. I'll think about it but I don't actually know if I really want to do that because for instance I've been banned from subreddits before but I don't want a ban from when I was 12 years old to follow me around forever because my writing style hasn't changed. Moderation is the most obvious application of this kind of software.
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