Which usernames do you recognise?
gojomo: Perhaps if/when the hidden-scores experiment concludes, PG can try a hidden-usernames experiment. Namely:For each submission's threads, a user would be assigned a new temporary (but stable) handle. Only later -- a few days, or when the article has dropped out of the top ~60 -- would these revert to the permanent names.Variants: let a submitter opt a submission's threads into this system -- perhaps permanently for that item, or for the period of initial discussion/rating. Or, let a member in good standing adopt such a 'mask' for the duration of one item's discussion.