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Obviously not all new accounts are dead-by-default, because we can see comments from new users. So either you triggered some obscure-by-design antispam measure,
by sbierwagen 9y ago
Obviously not all new accounts are dead-by-default, because we can see comments from new users. So either you triggered some obscure-by-design antispam measure, designed to be intentionally hard to reverse engineer, or a moderator manually banned the user.
- 2510c39011c5 9y agoThey probably would give better visibilities to those new accounts created from certain well-known IP address ranges... And their visibility mechanism seems to be a bit involved...as for now, each of my three different HN accounts has a different view scope for posts in a same thread... Seems these days it is much more difficult for a new account of vague origin to participate in a discussion here than it was a few years ago...