[gyardley]

As long as you spend a bunch of time customizing the theme, no.

Default-theme Octopress users all automatically get lumped under 'some dude using default Octopress' category in my brain - it's as close as you can get to publishing completely anonymously.

[skinnymuch]

To be fair, the number of people who are over exposed to the point of a visceral feeling toward default Octopress has to be pretty small. But not putting you down or anything. Indeed, i can understand you feeling that way.

[gyardley]

I don't dislike or otherwise feel viscerally towards the default Octopress theme - I can just remember the way a website looks far more easily than I can someone's name.

When I see a visually distinctive site for the second time, I think 'ah ha, I've been here before'. When I see someone's Octopress blog, I never know if it's the first or second or tenth time I've visited that particular blog.

I have the same trouble with Svbtle blogs, if they use a similar accent color - there's 'red Svbtle guy' and 'blue Svbtle guy' but with very few exceptions there aren't any discrete individuals.

[skinnymuch]

I see. I jumped the gun and did not see your point was more nuanced than I thought. Yeah, o agree with what you say. I dont really come across default Octopress much anymore, but yeah I get the whole Svbtle look being around too much now and not showing individualism.