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Thanks, that would be my first angle of attack as well. The assumption that I have at least one other hn account is reasonable enough. Even when I wrote my firs

Thanks, that would be my first angle of attack as well. The assumption that I have at least one other hn account is reasonable enough. Even when I wrote my first post, I was considering faking a different style/vocabulary (which is harder than it seems), but obviously, I was just using a throwaway account as a rhetorical device for emphasis. Thanks for the exchange. :)

jacquesm 17y ago
Ok, so I've run my analysis, my first guess was wrong, we'll see how many it takes to get it, if ever.
- seasoup 17y ago
  Quirks I noticed in the text to help with identification: "fully agree" comma followed by etc with a period in middle of sentence , etc. can use of e.g. with a period after each letter. well-known with a hyphen high-end with a hyphen likes to use colons correctly. no misspellings. odd. proper use of punctuation. strange. I'd say the writer fails the Turing test and is a robot.
  - Splines 17y ago
    Also, odds are that someone wouldn't bother logging out and in between two accounts. I'd weight your search against people who commented in between the time that the throwaway account posted. People who commented shortly before the throwaway account are also good candidates, as are people who seem to comment around the same time on other days.
    - follower 17y ago
      > odds are that someone wouldn't bother logging out and in between two accounts. Unless they use multiple browsers.
  - dauwkuk 17y ago
    Well I fully agree with this comment i.e. I recognize the "quirks" too. It looks to me like the results of a U.K. education. As a Brit-born male, in my past I have had some non-Brit ladies comment about the robot...
    - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
      I disagree on the UK edu unlees they're also a non-native - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199898 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199898
  - HeyLaughingBoy 17y ago
    Except for "fully agree" and the hyphen bit, that would generally characterize my writing, if only because bad grammar & spelling bug me. But it sure ain't me :-)
    - petercooper 17y ago
      if only because bad grammar & spelling bug me. But it sure ain't me Heh. I see what you did there. (Updated: "&" usage, "ain't", starting a sentence with a conjunction.)
  - Terretta 17y ago
    > no misspellings. odd. proper use of punctuation. strange. I'd say the writer fails the Turing test That's depressing. Meanwhile, "[space]-[space]" rather than "--" for "—" is idiosyncratic, and since HN preserves original spaces in comments, ".[space]" rather than ".[space][space]" rules a few more of us out.
    - robin_reala 17y ago
      Meanwhile, "[space]-[space]" rather than "--" for "—" is idiosyncratic It’s not idiosyncratic, it’s British.

jacquesm 17y ago

Ok, so I've run my analysis, my first guess was wrong, we'll see how many it takes to get it, if ever.

seasoup 17y ago
Quirks I noticed in the text to help with identification: "fully agree" comma followed by etc with a period in middle of sentence , etc. can use of e.g. with a period after each letter. well-known with a hyphen high-end with a hyphen likes to use colons correctly. no misspellings. odd. proper use of punctuation. strange. I'd say the writer fails the Turing test and is a robot.
- Splines 17y ago
  Also, odds are that someone wouldn't bother logging out and in between two accounts. I'd weight your search against people who commented in between the time that the throwaway account posted. People who commented shortly before the throwaway account are also good candidates, as are people who seem to comment around the same time on other days.
  - follower 17y ago
    > odds are that someone wouldn't bother logging out and in between two accounts. Unless they use multiple browsers.
- dauwkuk 17y ago
  Well I fully agree with this comment i.e. I recognize the "quirks" too. It looks to me like the results of a U.K. education. As a Brit-born male, in my past I have had some non-Brit ladies comment about the robot...
  - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
    I disagree on the UK edu unlees they're also a non-native - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199898 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199898
- HeyLaughingBoy 17y ago
  Except for "fully agree" and the hyphen bit, that would generally characterize my writing, if only because bad grammar & spelling bug me. But it sure ain't me :-)
  - petercooper 17y ago
    if only because bad grammar & spelling bug me. But it sure ain't me Heh. I see what you did there. (Updated: "&" usage, "ain't", starting a sentence with a conjunction.)
- Terretta 17y ago
  > no misspellings. odd. proper use of punctuation. strange. I'd say the writer fails the Turing test That's depressing. Meanwhile, "[space]-[space]" rather than "--" for "—" is idiosyncratic, and since HN preserves original spaces in comments, ".[space]" rather than ".[space][space]" rules a few more of us out.
  - robin_reala 17y ago
    Meanwhile, "[space]-[space]" rather than "--" for "—" is idiosyncratic It’s not idiosyncratic, it’s British.