[saltcured]

I am close to that and nearing 50 years old. I blame it on two things mainly.

First, I have been around long enough to witness the many negative social behaviors of Usenet reappear in web forums. I reasoned by induction that this is what people will do in each large network that follows. I guess I prefer social sneaker-networks with limited scale.

Second, I am within three degrees of the Unabomber. (Kind of like three degrees of Kevin Bacon but with surprise amputation.) I identify too easily with victims of such targeted attacks, and I am uncomfortable with the idea of publicity in general.

I also don't consider HN to be in the same category. But if it had allowed anonymous posting, I would probably never had created an account here either.