• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    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.

    • SSTF@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Tripcodes are not automatically applied. Default posting was anonymous, but a user could 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, and it wasn’t a persistent account.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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      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?