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> never have an About page, or contact info. No-one is putting their reputation on the line, regarding the quality or accuracy of the content.

It's a useful litmus test current to quickly evaluate new websites/services/projects, if there is no names/profiles attached to it that you can find some history about, it's well likely to be hastily put together with not much concern for quality. People who care about quality usually end up proud of the thing they make public.

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Tangentially, this is why (despite being an extremist for privacy) I've somewhat soured on Internet anonymity. Very few people are using their anon status to further discourse, i.e. like Publius. Mostly it's just people who want to sever the reputational thread between their output and their person.

I think it's fine to be pseudonymous, like Gwern, because while your government identity is protected, the pseudonym is a persistent store of reputation across time.