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Yeah, I figured it was something like that. There are plenty of things that I believe are true but don't say because the blow-up potential just isn't worth it. (And I'm someone who actually likes arguing on the Internet.)

Why not do something actually anonymous, though? Put up a form box on your website where people can write anything in response to the prompt, and let folks access it through Tor? Then post the results with the appropriate disclaimer. You might need to moderate it a bit to cut out crap like "PENIS1!!11!1!", but you might also get some genuinely interesting commentary.

Then again, this is basically what Blind does.



Yeah, but then, like Blind, you just get a bunch of bullshitters. The problem with Blind is that you're getting long-term career advice from a 23-year-old who's obsessed with 'TC'. Even if that person's obsession is in line with yours, he rarely has the experience to tell you what's going to work. Most posts there come from a place of anger and insecure showing-off that they're unlikely to be useful.




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