Seriously, it's one of the most insulting Internet-names I know-of and I automatically vote down everything I see by you.
If you do good stuff, I suggest you don't begin every single post sneering at us. If you really need reminding, your name is a clever way of saying "I'm smart, you're dumb".
Maybe I'm really just a crank but in a perhaps illusory fashion I think I'm a moderately serious hn commentator.
And oddly enough, an adult.
And sure, I'm happy to be voted down to oblivion for this but hey, just keep this in mind.
Please, tweak your presentation. It would make totally anonymous and irrelevant me happy. I'm sure that doesn't mean anything.
Would you change yours if I changed mine? My screen name here comes from another site, where it was mandatory to use screen names (I'm actually more accustomed to online interaction with my real name and other people who use their real names), and then I carried it over to another site I heard about on the first site, and then over to here. I chose the screen name on the original site (the Art of Problem Solving site) because literally there a great many participants are young people below the age of majority, and it was useful there to distinguish who was an adult. At the second site where I used this screen name, I was again among users of mixed ages, with many minors participating, and it seemed helpful to keep this same screen name. On both of those online forums, most participants have correctly picked up the implication that "token" is part of my screen name to remove offense from the "adult" part of my screen name, by self-deprecation.
I kept the screen name here (although I could just as well have used my real name) simply by Occam's Razor, not desiring to choose a new screen name in case anyone recognized me from AoPS over here.
I automatically vote down everything I see by you.
I had no idea I have such a persistent fan club. I upvote based on the content of comments rather than on the screen name of the person commenting. I'm happy to hear from other users here any time they think I have given offense. I beg your pardon for any offense I have inadvertently caused by my choice of screen name here back 1300 days ago (just shortly before you came on board, it appears). I cherish the opportunity to learn from you and from other participants, and look forward to seeing your further comments.
P.S. Previous HN polls about participant ages suggest the age range here is almost entirely above the age of majority but almost entirely below my age. I have commented on the lack of sure-fire assurance that anyone here knows the full details of the age distribution here.
P.P.S. I'm sure there are other examples, but my family is the only example I know of personally of two generations both participating on HN. My adult son is rather busy with his work this summer, but he has posted here from time to time and often exceeds me in average comment karma score, I think.
I hope you don't feel the need to change your user name, I can't see anything remotely offensive, to be honest. Your comments seem very well thought out and respectful also.
Thanks, Joe, I didn't see a way to reply to you off-forum in your user profile, so I'll follow up here. I sent pg the link to the subthread opened by your grandparent comment to your comment here, and asked him if the HN software allows changing a username with preservation of records of user submissions and comments. I told him I'd be happy to change my user name (and suggested a new one) if the HN software makes that possible. The software is not configured that way, pg told me, so I guess after 1301 days here I'm at risk to my reputation with this same user name I started with. On his part, pg also told me he didn't think my user name is a problem for the HN forum, but I appreciate your concern, and I thank you for drawing it to my attention. See you in the threads. (P.S. I looked up some of your previous comments in the same threads where I've commented before, by site-restricted Google search, and I see we share some interests and you have a thoughtful perspective on several issues I care about.)
Seriously, it's one of the most insulting Internet-names I know-of and I automatically vote down everything I see by you.
If you do good stuff, I suggest you don't begin every single post sneering at us. If you really need reminding, your name is a clever way of saying "I'm smart, you're dumb".
Maybe I'm really just a crank but in a perhaps illusory fashion I think I'm a moderately serious hn commentator.
And oddly enough, an adult.
And sure, I'm happy to be voted down to oblivion for this but hey, just keep this in mind.
Please, tweak your presentation. It would make totally anonymous and irrelevant me happy. I'm sure that doesn't mean anything.