Re: Feature Request: Abandon content to Anonymous Monk

As long as everything written in this node is true, I'd really love a way to wash my hands of it all.

Everything in that node is still true, and thus you do have a way to wash your hands of it all — as clearly (?) explained there. Have you /msg'd the gods with your request?

Having my identity attached

Is your identity attached? A quick rename of your user account (homenode) is all that's necessary — though I do then try to see if anyone has linked/referred to you by name, and fix those.

adds no real value to PM

I don't believe that's what you're really concerned about. PM doesn't get any value from any identities, false or otherwise, except perhaps in a few rare cases like chromatic. And maybe not even then, given Perl's terminal decline. Generally speaking, nobody cares who the real human is behind any given account.

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Re^2: Feature Request: Abandon content to Anonymous Monk by SankoR (Prior) on Jan 03, 2025 at 19:14 UTC
It might be in decline but I plan to keep using Perl until I'm The Last Perl Hacker rather than Just Another one and I had no idea my suggestion would be so controversial. We agree that having my or any other name above comments adds nothing of value, so why would having 'Anonymous Monk' there be a problem? The goal would be having nodes attributed to AM and disconnecting them from a single account which renaming alone doesn't accomplish. Most who'd close their account here out of concern for their online footprint would settle for that if it were an option.	[reply]
Re^3: Feature Request: Abandon content to Anonymous Monk by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 03, 2025 at 21:04 UTC
We agree that having my or any other name above comments adds nothing of value No, we do not agree on that. There is immense value in knowing that comment 1 and comment 2 were posted by different people, and that comment 1 and comment 3 were posted by the same person. What doesn't matter is what the authors' identifiers are. AnonymousCoward42 and AnonymousCoward666 (etc.) would be fine! except that they lack mnemonic value. The goal would be having nodes attributed to AM and disconnecting them from a single account Why is that the goal? (I assume you're speaking only for yourself here.) I don't see that as a desirable goal. concern for their online footprint Can you elaborate on that? It's not intuitively obvious what the real concern is, or why. FYI... We had one rather high-profile user who requested to be anonymized, now known as anonymized user 468275. Today's latest and greatest software contains tomorrow's zero day exploits.	[reply]