[dang]

The problem with a comment like this is that it adds to what it is complaining about.

While I have you: Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum.

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[throwaway4747l]

I try to maintain some consistency (as you probably noticed) but as I switch devices I honestly can't be bothered to remember the throwaway handle I last used. If that's really an issue, I'll try to stick to a handle that's easy to remember, or keep this one.

Out of honesty however, I should tell you that I value my anonymity and don't want an extensive posting history to be used to track and identify me. As pg said, keep your online footprint small, yadda yadda. So I can space out the intervals at which I make accounts but I can't promise I won't vanish the identity I created after a while.