Poll: Anonymous HN
One of the biggest breakthroughs in social media is the concept of sharing something that does not add to your social footprint. Ephemerality is just one example, but DMs and anonymous posts also enable this. I can imagine that users might share something that they would not want associated with their personal brand especially in a community like HN (which can be at the very least judgmental). Do you think that allowing non-socially binding sharing can add to the value of the HN network?
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With regards anonymous posting, just create a throw-away account and there you are.
What are you really asking?
create a throwaway account with a proxy. Use once, abandon forever.
>DMS
Add an email account to your public profile only for HN traffic.
Both of these options are probably more secure than whatever the HN staff would come up with.