Comment by Kaibeezy

3 years ago

On that theory, maybe not show the username at all, just a link to the profile?

I’d be curious whether people here would like more/less awareness of usernames. I suppose I’ll find out if my comments on it get any reactions.

But if youre having a conversation with someone who's raising points over multiple comments it would be nice to know those points so you can argue against them, else you risk strawmanning.

  • Could have a thread only title or id

    • Is that really a problem that needs solving? Right now, you see the user name only if you want to, it works fine.

    • True, but then you get random character strings.

      It's harder to keep track of diYsj5;£ and diYaba36£- versus benj111 and ctack.

      I suppose the current model follows the way actual human discourse works. We can identify people but they don't have a karma score over their head. Annonymising everything would be breaking that. It might work sure. But it feels like changing something that already works.

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