Re:Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn’t Telling
by wonsler on Sunday March 08, 2015 @06:04PM
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I was going to gloat about how I don't use something like yik yak, but then I realized I'm anonymous here, and that HN employs heavy handed moderation to deal with near anonymous chat.
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Re:Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn’t Telling
by hyperion2010 on Sunday March 08, 2015 @06:07PM
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Except that you aren't anonymous here. You are pseudonymous which is very different because you have a consistent identifier allowing people to interact with you and review your history and posts and attack you. When you are anonymous it would require significant effort to identify a user using lexical analysis or the like and the false positive rate would likely be quite high.