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Every account you ever had, every post/comment you ever posted, now has your real name, a photo of you, and your address, all just magically show up on the webpage right next to each of your posts/comments (also, no "hacking" could hide the info). All deleted posts/comments are magically restored and nothing you do (short of permanently shutting down the website and physical destruction of the servers) can delete them. (Any edits would still show every change you made.) How fucked are you?

And don't think about changing your name, or moving, all this info updates in real time. (for "magic" reason)

(You also cannot delete any future posts.)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I'm not, it's not a secret. As for deleted comments, they're mostly just stuff I deleted because I forgot to double check a fact and realised I was wrong after posting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I'm 0% fucked but that Something Awful post where Cliff Yablonski referred to me as "Human Testicle" will resurface.

I'm fine with that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

You can already find me from my username and I don't delete things.

You'll also find explicit pictures and a rough idea of where I live and have worked.

I'm not that interesting.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Not very much, I assume there's already some way for my name to be associated with my online identity just due to a slipup at some point or some good social deduction, and I rarely delete things I post anyways (they can be found in the modlog)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

You know I don't really know.

Pretty certain my ex would be upset. My lack of sympathy for the death of that CEO could get me in trouble with my job maybe.

If people I know didn't think of me as a loner weird guy before they would now.

Hell I haven't even posted a witty response to a comment on like a pornhub video or anything.

Im too boring to get fucked :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I'm the same here as I am everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I am like this in public and in person. No impact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Not very much at all. I pretty much have said whatever I wanted to my entire life- as I don’t GAFF what other people think.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I'm sure I'd be screwed. Just by the nature of the internet, someone in the various posts would find something that would enrage them enough to hunt me down and throw a cocktail at my house. Even if only one person in a million is insane and bent on revenge, overall I have enough posts that they'd come in contact with it. I'd for sure lose my job, since we have seen it happen on social media sites with folks' real names attached.

Luckily, most of the comments I've made have been on sites that have permanently shut down, so I would escape the worst of my years becoming public knowledge.

Now, if it wasn't just me, I'm sure I'd be lost in the relatively blase nature of my comments.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No one would notice or care… 1/10 🙂

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Same. The most surprising thing might be that I even have accounts online. And that I love pictures of scrungy cats.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Assuming that this would cover all past legal names as well (as I have had a grand total of four, different first and last names): still not a lot.

I have changed a lot since I first started posting things on the web, and I am embarrassed about some of the older stuff that I said before I learned more about certain subjects. But (as far as I can remember), the worst comments I ever made were ones in defence of outlawing abortion, and even those I never posted hate in.

So, given that those few comments are vastly outnumbered by my more recent comments explaining why my previous stance was nonsensical, I would probably have to be more afraid of someone threatening me for being a trans person who advocates for bodily autonomy as a basic and inalienable human right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I would have no other choice but to kill myself since I vented about a stupid MISdiagnosis of a stupid disorder whose label means literally nothing that took 20 years from me as society only sees that stupid disorder instead of a human being. My work friends will view me as less than the scum on their shoes. My managers will assume I just don't like working because it's not playing video games. Everyone will assume the stupidest things about me instead of just actually talking to me. Because why would they? I'm less than a rat. Literally, rat traps and poison are made to kill the rat painlessly and comfortably. Puppets controlled by that stupid disorder die painfully over several years and "they just need to get over it." I wouldn't be allowed to work or rent an apartment because society thinks I'm an overgrown infant. No 988 caller would take me seriously, in fact everyone will agree that I deserve abuse since the abuse is "helping". No one would believe the diagnosis was a mistake. They'll mistake my ptsd from living on the wrong side of society for that stupid disorder. They'll mistake everything I enjoy for that stupid disorder. Like all the people I cut ties with and completely ditched, they'll mistake me for that stupid disorder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Does this include private messages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The receipient's will see your real identity next to the message, but no one else (beside site admins of course) can see it. (If end to end encrypted, the site admins only see only the ciphertext, but with your real identity next to it.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

0%, I post under my real name and I've only deleted comments because of accidental duplicates.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Them: "Wow. I can't believe jubilationtcornpone would do something like that."

Me: "Yeah, well that makes two of us. And are you seriously trying to tell me you're JUST NOW hearing about that? You actually missed my compete and total public humiliation? That was like ten years ago."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Wait, I know a Chronotron.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I'm pretty good.

Worst case my family finds out I've been talking shit about them behind their back, but they're all a bunch of fuckers except for my brother and even he's kind of iffy.

Other than a couple of questionable porn likes I don't really have anything I would be embarrassed to have publicly known about myself.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

As far as I know not much but the internet has been around awhile. I mean if it happened to everyone I would be much more boring than I think most. If its literally just me I assume it would be a thing because of the novelty.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I don't think I've really ever deleted anything that wasn't just a simple mistake (e.g. duplicate post or whatever) so I'm not worried about much there

I guess some people in my life might not realise quite how left wing I am, but I've not really kept it under wraps to anyone that's asked.

I assume I'll probably get targeted more by identity thieves and similar, which ultimately will probably be the biggest thing to fuck me over about the whole situation

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's a reason why I post under my real name and never delete anything. Because your scenario has a high probability of really happening one way or another. That way I'm more conscious of the stuff I post.

A woman I know had an anonymous blog where she posted stuff about her kids without mentioning any names or showing any photos in an effort to protect them. My wife, who only knows her from her un-anonymised blog found that other blog and recognised her really quickly.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Embarrassed, but not fucked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Yeah, some suspicions about my level of motivation at work would be confirmed, and my perfectly adequate but kinda basic neighbors might realize it's not just my being awkward AF that keeps me from hanging out more, but that's probably the worst of it. Half the things I delete are to make it slightly harder to dox me than it is now, and most of the rest are things I've said elsewhere but don't feel like defending point-by-point in that particular thread.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not very, unless the nazis I'm reminding people that every day is punch one of manage to wheezingly waddle up from the basement and attempt to do something about it despite my genes being more pure norse whitey aryan than they could ever dream of so attempts of me life would just be another proof of my superior intellectual reasoning to their simplistic racism tribalism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Depending on country. In some, the nazis are already in government.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Whether or not I am anonymous does not change how/what I post. I also never delete any so nothing changes regarding that too. Cringe to be acting uncivil because you have a mask.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Facts. I've been posting exclusively as Postmortal_Pop on every platform I've been on since 2010. If someone wants me, they'd be downright incompetent if they couldn't find me. That's my name as much as my real name.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Guessing 2/10. Real name is very common. I've made plenty of shitty and dumb comments over the years, but it would simply be embarrassing and that would be it. I don't hold any important or public positions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd be fine. I've always been aware of the tenuous nature of being anonymous online.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Same. My friends already have the ability to easily find all the dumb shit I post online if they cared to and nothing I've posted would cause any legal trouble, just piss off some bigots and those who don't understand that crude internet humor is just humor. James Gunn's old posts have me beat and he's still doing alright.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I would hope that all the politicians and celebrities people actually parasocially care about would get all the attention something like this would stir up and compared with how awful so many of them are in public, even the worst posts of mine would hopefully end up pretty tame in comparison to whatever they're up to anonymously.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My real name is so generic, even if I doxxed myself you wouldn't find me anywhere.

Everyone I know IRL already knows my online identity.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've got you now, John Smith!

127.0. 0.1

Scared yet??!?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

I worked with a John Smith who came from Chicago. He would joke about hiding from the mob. At least I think he was joking...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Meh. Someone might learn some of my naughty preferences, but I don't think anything would ruin me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ehhh, I would be shunned by 2 or 3 family members, which might be a net benefit. I hope the former Oklahoma governor's daughter doesn't come after me. I'm more scared of that waxen pale nepobaby more than anyone else. She's got the money and time to cause havoc, the others do not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Wait, how is she the governers former daughter?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Ya got me, maybe she started being former when her mom failed to be reelected and the money dried up. ;)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I spoiled a part of Infinity War back in the day, and I'd expect a 305 lb katana wielding fedora wearer to appear out of the shadows at my door. Those dudes were pissed and drunk me didn't even know I did it until the mod that banned me for a month pointed it out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

you did WHAT

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You could take permanent sanctuary in a health food store or a gym.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but then I'll be in a health food store or a gym.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I tend to enjoy being devil's advocate on controversial subjects so I'd score a 9/10 fucked through sheer misinterpretation

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Absolutely same. I actually pretended to be a communist when I was in high school.

Add in a few remarks on porn sites, I'm pretty sure I'd have to change my name, my face, and go live in Brazil or something

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