Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups create better discussions?

Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by scrrr on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @11:38AM (#2709843)

Perhaps you could run each message through Google translate or something similar (e.g. English -> French -> English) to obfuscate the writing style. Otherwise, as others have already pointed out, it is very indicative of who the author is.

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @11:41AM (#2709858)

I foresee this having hilarious unintended consequences.

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by andrewcooke on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @12:21PM (#2710042)

i wonder if you could repeat with different languages and take some kind of semantic median? interesting problem.

[just to clarify, given the replies - i am talking about repeating in parallel, not in series. the idea being that errors might cancel out, rather than accumulate]

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by ak217 on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:02PM (#2710203)

I think all conversations should be run back and forth through Google Translate until they reach equilibrium (a la Translation Party). For added awesomeness, do a multi-way equilibrium instead of just two languages.

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by BoppreH on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:30PM (#2710331)

Your post in Translation Party:

  I (translation of a la carte party) have achieved a balance
  between the universal and Google, and I need to translate
  the conversation. Not only, Blip.fm, from how to move from
  the language of two additional multi balance.

I think two languages is bad enough.

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by malnourish on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @05:16PM (#2711394)

Tangential, but Translation Party doesn't work for me in the newest (stable) Firefox and Chrome.

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by terio on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @11:42AM (#2709861)

The user would have to correct the resulting text anyways.

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by pohl on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @12:50PM (#2710161)

I tried it with your comment, and it came back the same. However, English-->French-->Polish-->English came back with something altered:

Perhaps start every message by the Google Translate or something similar (eg English -> French -> English) to hide the writing style. Otherwise, as already mentioned, this is very revealing of who the author.

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by 6ren on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @12:10PM (#2710000)

You could use mechanical turk to rephrase each message. ugh that is so like Vinge's focus.

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by widget on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @12:41PM (#2710119)

I don't think that's necessarily any better. Ever played Telephone?

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by hammock on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @12:21PM (#2710040)

You'd need to run it through a non-deterministic model for that to work. Maybe select a couple languages at random to run it through, rather than the same one every time.

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Re:Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups crea... by terio on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @11:40AM (#2709850)

I also mentioned that idea below :)

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