Well, how about the contributers honoring the wishes of the owners of the plattform?
Also my wish as a contributer is that the threads stay like this. So I can come back later and reread them. I often gained value in reading a linked old thread.
My advice for people not wishing for that, would be simply to stop commenting instead of demanding the site should change.
Could there be a middle ground to remove the account ID as a correlation between posts? The posts could remain as a graph of replies without retaining who posted which.
I know this means someone could still use stylometry to try to reaggregate the posts, but that's less reliable than HN actually telling us that the same authenticated user made all these posts over a decade.
Also my wish as a contributer is that the threads stay like this. So I can come back later and reread them. I often gained value in reading a linked old thread.
My advice for people not wishing for that, would be simply to stop commenting instead of demanding the site should change.