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Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown by Kalium on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @07:39PM (#10349926)
> Here. This doesn't make sense. Why are people, or do people feel the need to link their identity to their thoughts online.

Some people cannot conceive of handling the thoughts of another without an identity attached to them. Thus, the need for all thoughts to have identity attached. It is believed that linking a certain identity to certain thoughts lends them weight and credibility, and linking a different identity to the same thoughts saps them of any credibility.

In either case, some people choose not to deal with ideas as separate from identity.

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Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown by bgibson on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:12PM (#10353683)
Interesting form of appeal-to-authority fallacy.
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Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown by Kalium on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:56PM (#10354005)
Some people consider the person conveying a message an inextricable part of the message.

I, personally, don't particularly agree. I think it's far more common for identity to be used as a cognitive shortcut by people looking to avoid engaging with and thinking about a message.

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