[gnabgib]

You are aware of the guidelines? (You are not fostering community)

> 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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[i_think_so]

Technically, every HN account is a throw-away account. ;-)

https://web.archive.org/web/20260228135203/https://www.brain...

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/351103

https://web.archive.org/web/20250713080832/https://www.usmcm...

[HendrikHensen]

Thanks, I was not aware. They seem to be guidelines, and not rules. I find my privacy and the prevention of anyone to build a full profile of me (especially how easy that is now in the age of LLMs) a bit more important than the vague concept of "fostering community". I am sorry.

[deaux]

Just like how HN itself can't be immune from macro trends, neither can its users, and macro trends have unfortunately made this a necessity for many of them.