<story><title>Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details</title><text>TL;DR: &lt;i&gt;Consider listing your contact details in your HN profile!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of interesting conversations happening here on HN. But sometimes people might want to continue the discussions even after threads fall of the front page.&lt;p&gt;Have you considered listing your contact details on HN so that people can get in touch with you more easily?&lt;p&gt;If you want to do that, please note that it’s &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; enough to fill in the email field on your profile. &lt;i&gt;Only&lt;/i&gt; the HN admins can see that field.&lt;p&gt;If you want others to see your e-mail address etc, you need to explicitly put it in the &lt;i&gt;about&lt;/i&gt; text area.&lt;p&gt;Some members want to keep a low profile and I certainly respect that. But please consider what you might be missing. There’s also no requirement to use your main e-mail address. One could also use an alternative e-mail in order to stay pseudonymous.&lt;p&gt;There are just so many interesting people here so I thought that one might not want to miss out on all interesting connections that could occur. For example, interesting job offers are not uncommon here.&lt;p&gt;Just my 2¢ though, do what thou wilt. Peace!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>I remember seeing some machine learning algorithm posted here a while back that did an amazing job fingerprinting writing samples.  It could use that fingerprint to match up accounts from multiple different sites.  Some people here had it correctly find their Reddit profile based off nothing but their public HN data.&lt;p&gt;If you are writing extensively both anonymously and non-anonymously, you should probably assume that someone motivated enough could match the two together either presently or in the near future as such technology becomes more widespread.</text></item><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>1. I say so much exploratory shit on here, just to see where that line of thought goes. No effing way I&amp;#x27;d want people to really know how stupid or childish I can be whilst trying different crazy thoughts or behaviors. I prefer freedom to explore ideas without consequences thank you! If that is anti-HN, then by all means, delete me and block my IP. I&amp;#x27;ll just go back to lurking.&lt;p&gt;2. I don&amp;#x27;t want my personal id&amp;#x27;ing info ever floating around associated with lengthy diary. Seems like a gargantuan attack surface. Maybe I&amp;#x27;m just paranoid.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: FYI: This is the ONLY social media website I post on. Period. Nothing else. No reddit. No linkedin. No FB. No tweeting. Nada.&lt;p&gt;EDIT#2: DanG&amp;#x27;s reply messages directly to me have really changed my dynamic, I&amp;#x27;ve become slightly less hot-headed and come to see why HN is a great place. No other social media site &amp;quot;taught me&amp;quot; this, even from a guy who spent plenty of time on CompuServe and usenet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>My name here is my name on Reddit is my name on GitHub is my name in real life. I’ve never believed it was possible to be totally anonymous on someone else’s server, so it’s good to have the reminder that I’m absolutely not every time I post anything.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details</title><text>TL;DR: &lt;i&gt;Consider listing your contact details in your HN profile!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of interesting conversations happening here on HN. But sometimes people might want to continue the discussions even after threads fall of the front page.&lt;p&gt;Have you considered listing your contact details on HN so that people can get in touch with you more easily?&lt;p&gt;If you want to do that, please note that it’s &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; enough to fill in the email field on your profile. &lt;i&gt;Only&lt;/i&gt; the HN admins can see that field.&lt;p&gt;If you want others to see your e-mail address etc, you need to explicitly put it in the &lt;i&gt;about&lt;/i&gt; text area.&lt;p&gt;Some members want to keep a low profile and I certainly respect that. But please consider what you might be missing. There’s also no requirement to use your main e-mail address. One could also use an alternative e-mail in order to stay pseudonymous.&lt;p&gt;There are just so many interesting people here so I thought that one might not want to miss out on all interesting connections that could occur. For example, interesting job offers are not uncommon here.&lt;p&gt;Just my 2¢ though, do what thou wilt. Peace!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>I remember seeing some machine learning algorithm posted here a while back that did an amazing job fingerprinting writing samples.  It could use that fingerprint to match up accounts from multiple different sites.  Some people here had it correctly find their Reddit profile based off nothing but their public HN data.&lt;p&gt;If you are writing extensively both anonymously and non-anonymously, you should probably assume that someone motivated enough could match the two together either presently or in the near future as such technology becomes more widespread.</text></item><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>1. I say so much exploratory shit on here, just to see where that line of thought goes. No effing way I&amp;#x27;d want people to really know how stupid or childish I can be whilst trying different crazy thoughts or behaviors. I prefer freedom to explore ideas without consequences thank you! If that is anti-HN, then by all means, delete me and block my IP. I&amp;#x27;ll just go back to lurking.&lt;p&gt;2. I don&amp;#x27;t want my personal id&amp;#x27;ing info ever floating around associated with lengthy diary. Seems like a gargantuan attack surface. Maybe I&amp;#x27;m just paranoid.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: FYI: This is the ONLY social media website I post on. Period. Nothing else. No reddit. No linkedin. No FB. No tweeting. Nada.&lt;p&gt;EDIT#2: DanG&amp;#x27;s reply messages directly to me have really changed my dynamic, I&amp;#x27;ve become slightly less hot-headed and come to see why HN is a great place. No other social media site &amp;quot;taught me&amp;quot; this, even from a guy who spent plenty of time on CompuServe and usenet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akomtu</author><text>This evidence is inadmissible in general public. You can&amp;#x27;t go on Twitter, say that the writing style of that and this person is 98% similar per the state of the art SGERT model and convince the public with that. It&amp;#x27;s also trivial to for a doxing target to dismiss this evidence as another flaky piece of software that&amp;#x27;s confusing writing styles. This kind of software is useful, but for more specialized purposes: forensics, intelligence.</text></comment>