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Re:Identity as Collateral: Preserving Hacker News by jacoblyles on Thursday April 09, 2009 @08:29PM (#555458)
It would certainly be an interesting experiment for some social sites to make. I wonder what a non-anonymous 4chan or reddit would look like?
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Re:Identity as Collateral: Preserving Hacker News by mahmud on Thursday April 09, 2009 @09:38PM (#555526)
It would be like real-life; anonymity is the third pillar necessary for The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/

HN is the first "community" I have ever given my real name to.

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Re:Identity as Collateral: Preserving Hacker News by e1ven on Thursday April 09, 2009 @10:01PM (#555557)
Absolutely- One of the things I enjoy about the HN community is that is is, most of the time, much more like spending time at a school lounge, than it is like an internet forum.

Being more like real-life isn't such a bad thing ;)

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Re:Identity as Collateral: Preserving Hacker News by quizbiz on Friday April 10, 2009 @05:35AM (#555881)
How would you enforce non-anonymity?
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