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On the how to avoid section: Isn't running comments through a randomised translator a few times then back considered a countermeasure also?

Also think it's probably poor form to list users as examples without their permission.



> On the how to avoid section: Isn't running comments through a randomised translator a few times then back considered a countermeasure also?

Yes.

> This may be out of line but isn't pg on here with a different username, Levenschtein distance of one that's not included? Or is that just a very motivated 13yo account who writes a lot of admin-esque comments.

What other pg account are you referring to? I want to see it so I can see what my algorithm missed.

> Also think it's probably poor form to list users as examples without their permission.

You're right. I'll remove that - I just wanted some examples especially for people on phones who don't feel like typing. Thanks for the feedback.


> However, using automated methods like machine translation services do not appear to be a viable method of circumvention.

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Stylometry




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