This way it is unpossible for any /prog/tard to impersonate the length of my name field, so none of you will steal my valuable respected identity. For example, if you give programming advice under my name, readers might obey it in full faith without knowing it came from a mere Anonymous Coward.
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"...A strange enigma is man!"
"Someone calls him a soul concealed in an animal," I suggested.
"Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarked
that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he
becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what
any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number
will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says
the statistician."
-- Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four"