Comment by ameliaquining
2 days ago
I think it is reasonable, if apparently incorrect, for people to assume that your account is a throwaway account, given its name. I'm surprised that you're surprised by this.
2 days ago
I think it is reasonable, if apparently incorrect, for people to assume that your account is a throwaway account, given its name. I'm surprised that you're surprised by this.
Account names are just unique strings within a set of allowed characters. I could make my handle “TheKingOfEngland”, but it wouldn’t actually make me English royalty. I thought in a community of programmers this would be self-evident, but alas not.
It's more than reasonable to assume accounts named in a manner such as yours are throwaways because 99.9% of them are.
How would you know? Your account is only a year old.
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