The Shadow questions thread is obviously going to be the thing that outs me eventually because I'm going to end up wanting to publish something based on it in an ebook or something and if I do I'll want it to be under my own name. This is very annoying.

This isn't a major problem - I'm now much more comfortable with people associating things I say here to my main identity than I was when I started this account - but I'll probably still try to prevent casual discovery.

Also TBH at this point too many people know who I am to keep it a secret - eventually one of you is going to get pissed off and leak it and everyone is going to go "Yeah, duh, we know"

The shadow questions one isn't really a survey instrument. I was actually very surprised when people started answering the questions in public, though in retrospect it's obvious that they would.

They were intended as a set of introspection tools for people to privately use.

ok