Yeah, apologies for that. I just went off the name and didn't click through to your profile and see that you're an established user. I think dang or sctb can change it for you, if you email them.

You're comment was already downvoted before I saw it, by the way.

No problem, no worries. I never assumed you were the downvoter either.

In my opinion the widespread use of pseudoanonymous accounts on Hacker News prevents it from becoming like Quora, which to me seem entirely about personal brand marketing rather than an exchange of ideas.

When people do identify themselves here it's almost always some relevant context. The move to hiding vote totals probably helped, too.

Anonymous is fine, as long as you don't change who you are every week. That's usually what throwaway accounts are used for, and why I wrongly assumed that this user was using a throwaway account.