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• TheTetrapod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Some of the boards use a system called tripcodes, which are essentially a username and password in one that are used when writing individual posts. It allows people to prove that they’re the same person across multiple posts, without anything as identifying as a user profile attached.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I always tough that they were cookie-generated, like you wnter the cookie assign a code for you that eventually go off. Pretty lame them pretending to not have user names while doing it.

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Tripcodes are not automatically applied. Default posting was anonymous, but a user can optionally post with a tripcode name.

      Some boards like /pol/ introduced post IDs where a randomly generated code would follow your anonymous name within a thread, so others could see which comments within a thread were the same person. That system wasn’t site wide though.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Pretty lame them pretending to not have user names while doing it.

      doesn’t this essentially make it an opt-in system to user names?

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