Strawberries, I am one of the people who sent out invitations to a.secret and I can tell you that even I am completely clueless when it comes to most a.secret identities. For one thing, half the people were invited by Clear and we've been very secretive even with each other. Plus we really did send out a bunch of invites as we said in the initial statement so we have no idea which of those people took us up on the offer. Moreover, some of you joined later and hadn't even received those notes. It's all a big mystery from my end, so then I suspect it's an even bigger mystery for others.
The other thing is - and this may just be me - that I don't believe most people have such incredibly distinct blog writing styles that they can be guessed. It's different if they start revealing very personal things from the start. But no one has done that here. (I mean things much more personal than the tidbits people have posted here so far and elaborating on the details more and more as time goes on.)
Of all the blogs I read, I can think of one person's style that I *may* be able to recognize. But even that may be, because I always see that person's name on a blog post before reading the entry. (Plus, I think it's because I find it somewhat annoying and pretentious/ingenious and as though the person was trying too hard to sound "cool" so it got ineffective quickly. And no, of course I don't read that person's writing regularly given all that.)
So while of course everyone should be somewhat careful in what they may reveal here and certainly we can make no guarantees about things being completely anonymous (because they rarely ever are online if law enforcement ever gets involved), I wouldn't be too concerned about people just randomly guessing your identity because of how you write. And we certainly have no plans of law enforcement getting on our case, of course.
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Posted by Plaid to academicsecret at 8/07/2006 11:50:32 AM
