[shadowflit]

> I'd also like special people's names to be highlighted such as the OP's and admin's.

I like this. I sometimes find myself searching a page with the OP's name to check for responses. As for the rest though... I kind of like the "anonymity" of posting without a sig/avatar/anything because I don't do any pre-filtering of comments by user.

[makmanalp]

I usually disregard usernames (because it's too much of an effort to keep track of them in a conversation) so the whole thing reads as one large internal monologue of a really intelligent, well rounded but conflicted and wandering-minded person.

[kmfrk]

I sometimes get the feeling that I'm talking to the HN hivemind.