[scantis]

Most HN users are circumventing copyright restriction and paywalls to make content available to a wider audience. Weirdly enough they draw the line with citations, this is why so many projects are attributed to weird internet nicks.

Usually doxxing those nicks wouldn't result in financial compensation, but lots of legal trouble.

What you want is fringe and confusion to me, especially in this context. You control your nick and your comments are attributed to it.

If somebody else uses your comments for something useful, they can cite your nick.

[headShrinker]

Irrelevant to our concerns here. What other people do with other information is not my concern. What HN does with my information is of direct concern and legal consequence.