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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

by 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.

by seasoup 17y ago

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.