On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 17:02:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
In today's surveillance state, the government already knows your name and what you look like, so being anonymous on github is a bit pointless, as if anyone cares that you are interested in D. I can understand if you're a celebrity or want nobody to know you're a dog, but that doesn't apply to most of us.
Actually, given the blatant misogyny frequently on display on this forum, about 51% of the world's population - literally most of us - have a perfectly understandable reason to maintain some level of anonymity in this community.
It is nice to have a consistent pseudonym for matching up forum posts with irc with github etc., but let's not make this a requirement.
