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Because many new accounts are dead. Some are so dead, you can't even vouch for them.
by blattimwind 9y ago
Because many new accounts are dead. Some are so dead, you can't even vouch for them.
- ZenoArrow 9y agoYou can vouch for alexi23's comment (just click on the timestamp beside the comment to find the vouch link).
- mcguire 9y agoDid not know that. Thanks!
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- dang 9y agoThere's no such thing as an account whose comments can't be vouched for. Nor is it true that there are many dead new accounts, if by 'dead' you mean 'banned'. But it is true that software filters sometimes kill comments by new accounts. That's not software that we want to have to run, or write, but it's necessary because of past abuses by trolls.
- blattimwind 9y agoWhat I meant is vouching not reviving it, even when (apparently) multiple people vouch. I didn't mean to attack the HN mods, you guys do a good job here!
- dang 9y agoMy initial response probably sounded like I took it that way—sorry! I often only notice that later.