[throwaway2037]

Not to ruffle any feathers, but I notice this trend on HN also. People will post something the city they live in and drop all kinds of hints... except the name. Same for employers. Strange. It's like we need to play the old boardgame "Guess Who?"!

[sidpatil]

They don't want to deanonymize themselves.

[brewdad]

Yes, but too often the vagueness is just silly.

"I work for a major search engine (rhymes with Scroogle) and...blah"

Just come out and say it at that point.

[throwaway2037]

That is exactly my point. I guess I can feed these types of posts into ChatGPT 17 and it will tell me the name of the company, city, etc. Soon enough!