[Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

[Jonas Almström Duregård]

Maybe users could choose between using a real name and being given a
random one (like Anonymous<N>). This will (1) protect from data
mining, (2) protect from government persecution and (3) keep the
damned 1337 Haxxor names away from Hackage :)

On 6 April 2010 08:02, Miguel Mitrofanov <miguelimo38 at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Out of curiosity: is there something wrong with my nickname "migmit"?
>
> I'm not gonna change it anyway.
>
> On 6 Apr 2010, at 09:52, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
>
>> This is a pretty terrible reason, but I'm going to throw it out there:
>> I like real names because they're much more aesthetically pleasing.  In
>> my younger days, I once decided, "Hey, I should get a pseudonym" and I
>> picked something fairly ridiculous, just because "everyone else was doing
>> it".  I would have appreciated someone to have conked me on the head
>> earlier
>> and said, "No, that pseudonym is stupid" and made me use something else.
>>
>> That said, I think I'd be perfectly happy with a policy that preferred
>> real names, but was willing to take an (obvious) pseudonym if the author
>> insisted.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Edward
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