Posted July 30, 2013
xyem: The anonymisation can be a problem depending on how I do it. If I just change the names, people will easily be able to match up the names to who they are by their current rep. Doing a random (but consistent for the user) adjustment of the rep to throw that off might interfere with people's analysis.
amok: We are all already anonymized via virtue of using aliases. Granted over own aliases has a meaning to us and is an representation of us, as long as you do not use your own real name as alias, then you are anonym. (like I suspect SimonG's real name is not really Simon) That's right. My name is Babe Ruth. The DaCosta part of DaCostaBR is just to throw people off and the BR part is in no way an acronym to where I'm from. How about that!?