BCS wrote:
Yeah, but it you make it hard enough to read, then people won't have any brain cycle left over to do pattern matching. /joke OTOH if you do it wrong, they might no even read it in the first place.

It's also remarkably consistent in style with the other troll posts here, and totally unlike Bjarne's style.

I would say that is a very hard thing to pull off.

I know a guy who got pasted enough in an online forum that he "disappeared" and re-emerged a while later under a new pseudonym. He got outed within a couple days, and accused me of ratting him out to the other forum members. I told him that was hardly necessary, as I pointed out that he often used some unique stock phrases, and repeated them under his new name. Everyone immediately knew it was him.

He did a few more name changes, and tried pretty hard to hide his style, but people always caught on. He finally gave up and just accepted that people knew who he was, and he got gently ribbed about it now and then.

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