alt Hacker NewsAccount names are just unique strings within a set of allowed characters. I could make my handle “TheKingOfEngland”, but it wouldn’t actually make me English royalty. I thought in a community of programmers this would be self-evident, but alas not.
Account names are just unique strings within a set of allowed characters. I could make my handle “TheKingOfEngland”, but it wouldn’t actually make me English royalty. I thought in a community of programmers this would be self-evident, but alas not.
It's more than reasonable to assume accounts named in a manner such as yours are throwaways because 99.9% of them are.