[brokenmasonjars]

I don't really consider myself part of HN. I'm an observer. Lots of interesting articles are shared with some great comments that follow.

I think though the Google and Youtube stuff is a bit different than what I would like to see with Amazon and abebooks. Youtube was known for it's commenting feeds, there was an anonymity around making comments with usernames to hide behind. Forcing you to create a single login so to connect to your profile page on Google removed that anonymity and was aimed at curtailing the atmosphere found in the comment sections. Thankfully, it has prevailed to some extent as I always enjoyed the comments on videos despite how crude they can be at times. It's cheap entertainment. For Amazon/Abebooks... I mean it's really about just ordering products. I suppose if you write reviews there is that issue sort of but not really either. I rarely see reviews on abebooks compared to amazon. The atmosphere within reviews on Amazon say pre-2009(?) was humorous as well. However it seems Amazon has long stamped out the trolling comments/reviews. The comparison I think might not work so well then in regards to single login. Especially considering that abebooks/amazon aspect is to order things and have it shipped to my house..my residents. I'm not necessarily trying to be anonymous behind various usernames. I rarely do reviews, and it's with a different account usually to counter books that only have 1 review by someone giving it 1 star because it took too long to ship..or something thus not based on the content of the book. Well I use to anyways counter that stuff but I really don't care much these days so I don't really bother. I just want to simply order books without having to log onto 7+ different sites all owned by the same corporation.

edit: more words added.