pseudonyms

If most people are blocking posts from new pseudonyms, how does one get a new reputation stablished?

You have to accept and work with all the existing workflow, and that includes allowing pseudonyms.

If you don't want to be caught, be careful, use pseudonyms, and protect yourself from tracking.

A lot of people who blog on these ideas maintain pseudonyms to prevent Strangeloop-like witch hunts ruining their professional lives.

Machine-generated pseudonyms (identicons) are used only for discussion comments there -- don't know about Hush, though.

The most likely explanation is they sent her a message saying pseudonyms are not allowed, and asking for her real name.

Facebook would be making the same mistake as Google if it did allow pseudonyms.

He wrote 100s of small stories under pseudonyms to make ends meet until then.

Typically it's the first two which makes it hard to use PGP with pseudonyms.

However, as soon as Google+ made it their business to out gay people using pseudonyms to stay in the closet, those requests stopped.

If pseudonyms are against their philosophy, being fully anonymous should be even worse.

The defining feature is that all usernames are pseudonyms so you can avoid threats to yourself or your livelihood based on what you say.

And there's no reason why those "with nothing to hide" couldn't just use weakly compartmentalized pseudonyms.

Beyond that, there was a rather large social media "landgrab" when Ello first hit mainstream circles where popular social media personalities claimed both accounts with their usual pseudonyms and also the pseudonyms of friends and rivals (as both jokes and pranks).

The context is important and, atleast to me, it seems he makes a difference between "Nick Szabo" and his pseudonyms, here: Another big problem I see with pseudonymous reputations is entry.

I've had several years to establish a net.reputation for "Nick Szabo", and it might take a long time for any of my pseudonyms to catch up.