Ask HN: Throwaway accounts and comments

Posted by atarian on Friday January 27, 2017 @04:48PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I notice a lot of topics tend to have people who create throwaway comments to post something anonymously.

What if people above a certain point threshold (like 700) were allowed to post anonymous comments?

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Re:Ask HN: Throwaway accounts and comments by throw20180101 on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:21PM (#13503246)

Throwaway is for when I have something that I feel is important, that I just have to say, but I am afraid to risk the fake internet points that I worked so hard for.

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Re:Ask HN: Throwaway accounts and comments by atarian on Friday January 27, 2017 @07:00PM (#13503891)

This was my impression too. I think if there was anonymous commenting with a high point threshold, most people would consider it more seriously knowing it was by a top contributor. It would also weed out most of the trolls.

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Re:Ask HN: Throwaway accounts and comments by cauterized on Saturday January 28, 2017 @09:01AM (#13506293)

To me, throwaway has nothing to do with the fake internet points. It's for keeping my main account anonymous if I want to post a question or answer that could easily be used to identify me or link my primary account to one of my other pseudonymous Internet identities.

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Re:Ask HN: Throwaway accounts and comments by melling on Friday January 27, 2017 @04:50PM (#13503014)

Nah, you should always be punished for telling people what you really think.

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