Too true. I'd love to see what Hacker News comments would look like if all comments were anonymous for the first 6 hours...

Hm. That is an unbelievably charming idea for an experiment. Does HN ever do April Fools' day experiments? That would seem worth it for the introspective value alone...

I think you should suggest this idea to the admins. I know PG stepped down but this seems like something he might have been in favor of.

I really like this idea.

I'll chime in with that it's an interesting idea, OTOH my gut feeling is that most people won't come back to read article comments after this initial 6 hours or so — hence you might as well essentially make the user handles anonymous altogether.

Just like that movie 'The Purge'.