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Looking at how quickly you commented after OTToken and when he commented how quickly you responded, I could see why someone would think it was you. Just like th
by johngalt 17y ago
Looking at how quickly you commented after OTToken and when he commented how quickly you responded, I could see why someone would think it was you. Just like the yahoo answers "questions" that are obviously setups because they are answered 1minute after asked.
Assuming it's not you, we have another area of comparison that is being overlooked. Besides OTToken's text patterns we also have when the comments were left. So we can throw out certain people that never comment during the hours of the day that OTToken did.
Also OTToken is obviously familiar with HN and has an alternative account by his own implication. Likely he was reading/commenting on HN then decided to make the account. OTToken made multiple comments over two hours so we could also try and pick people who's comments adjoin that timeframe. Specifically people who made comments in advance of OTTokens comments, but not at the same time.
He can switch accounts to make alternative comments, but it's unlikely he was making comments from two separate accounts simultaneously.
- jacquesm 17y ago> Besides OTToken's text patterns we also have when the comments were left. So we can throw out certain people that never comment during the hours of the day that OTToken did. Noodle already clued in to that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199768 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199768 Also, if you could check my comment history (which you can't because it seems to time out on HNs server) you'd see that my comment speed is usually fairly quick in threads where I'm active.