Comment by throwaway894345
15 hours ago
I’m not sure if they’re equally reasonable, but inferring something from a username is at least as foolish as making inferences based on account age. The critical distinction, however, is that my account age remark was tongue in cheek while you joined the fray to defend drawing conclusions from a username.
> inferring something from a username is at least as foolish as making inferences based on account age.
That's just not so, friend.
Again, when 99.9% of usernames with the form throwaway+random number string are throwaway accounts, it's reasonable to assume any account fitting the pattern is such an account, because odds are astronomically high that it is. This has to do with something called convention, and I'd suggest reading more on that topic and how it can affect inferences.
Whereas, there is no indicator about how any account may tie to the experience of the person posting behind the account. It's as useless a metric as account name itself for trying to gauge that, and honestly, that should be obvious.
> is that my account age remark was tongue in cheek while you joined the fray to defend drawing conclusions from a username.
You put the emoticon to indicate a perhaps tongue in cheek response, bur the rest of the text and conversation didn't really support that, nor do the continuing replies.
I merely corrected you when you tried to say it wasn't reasonable for people to assume an account named such as yours is a throwaway, because it very, very much is.