This isn’t meant to be perfectly secure. It’s meant to be a bit more secure than currently.
It’s also better than the Scott Alexander situation, since your articles can only be doxed one at a time, rather than all at once.
Finally there’s ways of doing the link such that it reveals nothing. I’m fact it will need to be the case if you only allow users with some minimum of Karma to follow the link.
Sorry, missed that part. If the link to author profile is not included in the article, but is only downloaded after the user (with sufficient karma) clicks on the button, my objections do not apply.
It’s also better than the Scott Alexander situation, since your articles can only be doxed one at a time, rather than all at once.
It would be simple to write a bot that would scrape names from all the semi-anonymous articles. Someone could even set up a LessWrong mirror that automatically de-anonymised everything.
As suggested, we could force them to have a lesswrong account with e.g. 100 karma.
It should be straightforward to detect such a bot (the same user account clicking on every single semi anonymous article) and blocking it, and gaining 100 kudos is annoying enough to make it not worth doing repeatedly.
This isn’t meant to be perfectly secure. It’s meant to be a bit more secure than currently.
It’s also better than the Scott Alexander situation, since your articles can only be doxed one at a time, rather than all at once.
Finally there’s ways of doing the link such that it reveals nothing. I’m fact it will need to be the case if you only allow users with some minimum of Karma to follow the link.
Sorry, missed that part. If the link to author profile is not included in the article, but is only downloaded after the user (with sufficient karma) clicks on the button, my objections do not apply.
It would be simple to write a bot that would scrape names from all the semi-anonymous articles. Someone could even set up a LessWrong mirror that automatically de-anonymised everything.
As suggested, we could force them to have a lesswrong account with e.g. 100 karma.
It should be straightforward to detect such a bot (the same user account clicking on every single semi anonymous article) and blocking it, and gaining 100 kudos is annoying enough to make it not worth doing repeatedly.