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Since account creation was disabled, I'm sure it's the easiest moderation job going.

>>scoot_+(OP)
It's not disabled?

>>scoot_+(OP)
I always make a fresh new throwaway account here every time I make a post, and,so, by this post you can deduce yourself. This is a zero-minute account, as all my accounts are. You're welcome.

>>thisab+66
I wish you wouldn't do that, as I think it's destructive to the community. Certainly things aren't perfect here, but certainly they could become worse. Violating the (difficult to enforce) rule that one maintain an "identity that others can relate to" contributes to making things worse.

>>thisab+66
FYI: that's explicitly discouraged.

You're welcome to create throwaways where appropriate. But in doing what you're doing, you're very likely making it more difficult for those with a legitimate need to do similarly to do so.

>>thisab+66
This is actually something the site guidelines ask you not to do. Would you mind reviewing them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

HN is a community. It's totally fine not to use your real name, but users do need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

>>dang+GJ
We all really appreciate the work you do here.

>>nkurz+Jj
I think anonymity per se is not that bad, and I'm pretty sure many regularly create throwaway accounts for harmless discussion on many forums just for privacy reasons (avoid profiling & analysis, big brother, personal attacks, etc), not for posting inflammatory or controversial comments.

Websites like Reddit Profile (https://redditprofile.com/about) and HN Profile (https://hnprofile.com) systematically scans all HN comments and identifies all users' expertise, personal interests, activities and emotions, and allow employers to uncover their E-mails and hire them. And it's just a one-man's startup as a social experiment, larger agencies and corporations have at least many order-of-magnitude higher budgets. And I definitely think not everyone wants that.

The problem, I think, is this type of behavior encourages inappropriate uses and abuses of anonymity.

>>scoot_+(OP)
I think they ban certain IPs. So if you share an IP with someone who got banned that could be the reason.