Maybe users could choose between using a real name and being given a
random one (like Anonymous<N>). This will (1) protect from data
mining, (2) protect from government persecution and (3) keep the
damned 1337 Haxxor names away from Hackage :)
On 6 April 2010 08:02, Miguel Mitrofanov
Out of curiosity: is there something wrong with my nickname "migmit"?
I'm not gonna change it anyway.
On 6 Apr 2010, at 09:52, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
This is a pretty terrible reason, but I'm going to throw it out there: I like real names because they're much more aesthetically pleasing. In my younger days, I once decided, "Hey, I should get a pseudonym" and I picked something fairly ridiculous, just because "everyone else was doing it". I would have appreciated someone to have conked me on the head earlier and said, "No, that pseudonym is stupid" and made me use something else.
That said, I think I'd be perfectly happy with a policy that preferred real names, but was willing to take an (obvious) pseudonym if the author insisted.
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