Ask HN: What’s your purpose for an alternative account?

Saw this neat product [1] on the front page of hacker news yesterday.

I spend a significant amount of time browsing hacker news, sometimes commenting, but have never found a compelling enough reason to want to create an alternative account. It’s me, anyways, and an additional account is definitively more maintenance than a single account.

Since it’s pretty popular to do so, obviously, with this tool in existence..

What’s your reason, if any?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016