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Re:Show HN: Submit your ideas for improving HN by phillmv on Monday March 04, 2013 @08:57PM (#5322393)

http://hnwishlist.com/posts/54520ba4-f32e-473a-8590-365e893f...

("Implement a real name policy")

Seriously? Why does anyone think this is a good idea? Can't we just stomp this one out for good?

I really miss noms de guerre. It saddens me that we moved away from handles and pseudoanonymity being a default.

Says the guy using his real name.

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Re:Show HN: Submit your ideas for improving HN by Par_Avion on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:09PM (#5322433)

I think Hacker News' name policy is just about right. Its public enough that we don't have things going on like 4chan, but its not public to the point people are afraid to comment their opinions.

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Re:Show HN: Submit your ideas for improving HN by DeepDuh on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:42PM (#5322542)

> Hacker News' name policy..

Did I miss something? I can't find any username policy in HN's guidelines.

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Re:Show HN: Submit your ideas for improving HN by tikhonj on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:30PM (#5322707)

Well, it has usernames. That's a policy in and of itself!

The policy, then, is completely implicit: you can have any valid username which may or may not reflect your own name.

Oh, and you can't change them after the fact. As far as I know. That would be a nice feature...

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