Quote from: guysmiley on August 04, 2012, 04:38 pmfor this very reason, i create a new account here whenever i get to around 250 posts. i recommend you all do the same.i know its tough because we get so attached to our names and presence here, but this really isn't the kinda place where you want to be a celebrity post whore. better to be like a ghost.Ok, but that doesn't even work.I mean, on the handle level or SRF usernames level, that works for anonymity. You're right there. It's a trade off of whether you want the added value of a reputation vs more anonymity. But adversarial styleometry attacks would actually very easily reveal who all your alts are as long as you spent >= 500 words on them per alt (for just the drexel group's software).I mean, I could easily just use something like Jstylo, and then take random samples of 50 people from the entire forum against 1 poster's text as a benchmark. Then you could just repeat that process hundreds of times until you've processed all possible combinations of SR users in blocks of 50 within the universal set of SR members. Finally, you would collate all that data and look for the 'top performers'. It's a bit of work, could probably be made a lot simpler, but there's nothing complicated about it conceptually that I can see.However, if you used Anonymouth, and modified the features for each alt, then this is impossible.You can't do that for the Internet, because it's fucking huge. This combinatorial algorithm grows exponentially. But on just 1 forum, it's trivial.Finally, editing or deleting your posts is a waste of time if the enemy is page scraping everything. Which they are unless they're bumbling idiots. In fact edits or deletions are likely to attract more attention rather than less.Paranoid enough yet? ;-)