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by fasthands9 1293 days ago
Given the post here a few weeks ago about tracking people through writing style I actually wonder what the point of usernames is.

Maybe it should be possible to have a username so people can activity follow you and see other submissions?

And maybe it would be nice if each time you posted it generated a unique username so that it's anonymous? You could still keep e-mail registration/verification. And perhaps still give moderators access to the master accounts in case they need to see if a user is constantly promoting a company or constantly engaging in anti-social commenting.