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Re:YC is a cult by raganwald on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @10:13AM (#260481)
Perhaps (s)he likes to self-identify as politically correct? There can be many, many explanations for the handles people choose. Be careful that you don't find yourself trying to make sense of a Rorschach Inkblot...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_inkblot_test

Re:YC is a cult by ChaitanyaSai on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @11:30AM (#260604)
Are you saying that the person doing this has no conscious access to his or her own latent reasons? Or that this is just a random pattern like a Rorschach? I don't think it is a random pattern. There are far too many xx usernames here, relative to the other online communities I am a part of.
Re:YC is a cult by raganwald on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @11:43AM (#260636)
I'm saying that trying to surmise what someone is thinking from their choice of a two-character handle is like interpreting a Rorschach, which is not the same thing as saying that the characters themselves are randomly generated.