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> How can you say that your reply "goes into the void", just because the name of the account you're responding to is "throwaway892238" rather than "fluoridation"?

I have no idea which of our community members any given throwaway is, I'll never know, their comments are just anonymous notes left with no way to respond to an actual member of our community with an actual history and an actual reputation (vs a throwaway they may never check again). That's why a throwaway comment is like an anonymous "fuck you" note. Or, put another way:

> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.[0]

My point is further supported by the rest of my post that you responded to, which is the substance of our discussion. Continuing to argue over an analogy instead of the substance of the matter would be silly.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html