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I realized this back in 1997 when dejanews started up. From then on I never posted with my real name, and never will.

I only have a very limited internet presence with my real name and never post any of my opinions on it.

Another place people never post with their real name: the voting booth. Hence the big shockers: "How did XXXX win?" It's because nobody who thought that way ever said so out loud.

Caution is still advised. ML identity-matching using your writing patterns/idiosyncracies will likely be a thing in the near future.

I'm envisioning a browser extension that runs your posts back-and-forth through Google Translate and DeepL a few times, scrubbing your post of all personal markings (and nuance).

Stylometry is already a well-studied field, just not typically applied to online datasets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry

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