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Re:Poll: Do you use your real identity on Hacker News? by anonymous245 on Thursday October 14, 2010 @11:31AM (#1791237)
I used to participate using a recognizable name for networking reasons. But I was self-censoring myself too much, since I don't agree with lots of HN's groupthink. So I switched to an anon handle.
Re:Poll: Do you use your real identity on Hacker News? by ElliotH on Thursday October 14, 2010 @11:33AM (#1791247)
Surely some level of self-censorship is desirable. If you disagree with something and doing it politely you generally won't get hit too hard from what I've seen (though I appreciate my account is fairly new).

Saying things like 'groupthink' are probably the sort of words you may actually want to self-censor.