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> I've been on HN like 8 years curious because your profile says > created: 16 days ago Thank you for confirming you are using a sock-puppet account! (Edit:

by da1 10y ago

> I've been on HN like 8 years curious because your profile says > created: 16 days ago Thank you for confirming you are using a sock-puppet account! (Edit: While apparently using your main account to down-vote. Classy!)

midgetjones 10y ago
'Apparently' how? Because you're being downvoted? I doubt, even if it is a sockpuppet account (which incidentally has amassed four times the karma you have), that they are the only one downvoting you.
- coderdude 10y ago
  He's saying that because the person who says they've been here for 8 years registered 16 days ago. As if, in 8 years of Inflammatory HN commentary, only just now did they decide to stop lurking. And only just now did they become so vocal about what matters to them. That's my interpretation. It could also mean the more obvious, "I've been here for 8 years but under a different name."
  - midgetjones 10y ago
    I specifically did not deny it was a sockpuppet. That was not my point.
  - 12-4 10y ago
    > It could also mean the more obvious, "I've been here for 8 years but under a different name." Bingo. Why didn't you start with the more obvious interpretation? I've been here in my estimation for 7-8 years, with maybe the first 2 years of that being lurking. Check that 4 year old 'ledge' account too and you'll see that all the facts and stylometric features line up. When the 'submitting too fast' limitation (which ironically is because you people were downvoting me) is lifted on my current account, I'll be happy to angrily post from there again too. And I'm not using any of these other accounts to downvote anyone, or do anything deceptive. But how else could I prove that my current account being 16 days old is meaningless? I have made probably 30+ accounts on HN, and I wish I could find one of the 5-6 year old ones and log into it to really drive it home that you're wrong.
    - da1 10y ago
      > And I'm not using any of these other accounts to downvote anyone You are admitting to using them to circumvent the site's posting policy. You just keep on admitting nefarious behavior. I'm going now. Good bye.
      - 12-4 10y ago
        Whatever. I'm not going to stand by and let you two call me a liar, a sock puppet, a white knight, etc. This will be my last post until I can resume posting under my normal account too.
- da1 10y ago
  Because after one of his comments, in a matter of less than one minute, I got 9 down-votes in every single comment, even in totally unrelated threads. All the comments that were still possible to down-vote were down-voted but only a single time. Plus he explicitly admitted to using sock-puppets to circumvent posting throttle. Edit: So he made a script. Every new comment I make is immediately down-voted.
dang 10y ago
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by da1 10y ago

midgetjones 10y ago

'Apparently' how? Because you're being downvoted? I doubt, even if it is a sockpuppet account (which incidentally has amassed four times the karma you have), that they are the only one downvoting you.

coderdude 10y ago
He's saying that because the person who says they've been here for 8 years registered 16 days ago. As if, in 8 years of Inflammatory HN commentary, only just now did they decide to stop lurking. And only just now did they become so vocal about what matters to them. That's my interpretation. It could also mean the more obvious, "I've been here for 8 years but under a different name."
- midgetjones 10y ago
  I specifically did not deny it was a sockpuppet. That was not my point.
- 12-4 10y ago
  > It could also mean the more obvious, "I've been here for 8 years but under a different name." Bingo. Why didn't you start with the more obvious interpretation? I've been here in my estimation for 7-8 years, with maybe the first 2 years of that being lurking. Check that 4 year old 'ledge' account too and you'll see that all the facts and stylometric features line up. When the 'submitting too fast' limitation (which ironically is because you people were downvoting me) is lifted on my current account, I'll be happy to angrily post from there again too. And I'm not using any of these other accounts to downvote anyone, or do anything deceptive. But how else could I prove that my current account being 16 days old is meaningless? I have made probably 30+ accounts on HN, and I wish I could find one of the 5-6 year old ones and log into it to really drive it home that you're wrong.
  - da1 10y ago
    > And I'm not using any of these other accounts to downvote anyone You are admitting to using them to circumvent the site's posting policy. You just keep on admitting nefarious behavior. I'm going now. Good bye.
    - 12-4 10y ago
      Whatever. I'm not going to stand by and let you two call me a liar, a sock puppet, a white knight, etc. This will be my last post until I can resume posting under my normal account too.
da1 10y ago
Because after one of his comments, in a matter of less than one minute, I got 9 down-votes in every single comment, even in totally unrelated threads. All the comments that were still possible to down-vote were down-voted but only a single time. Plus he explicitly admitted to using sock-puppets to circumvent posting throttle. Edit: So he made a script. Every new comment I make is immediately down-voted.

dang 10y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021773 and marked it off-topic.