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It's hand-wavy for now, but I've generally found that older more connected accounts are much less likely to be conspiratorial about this type of thing. Not attr
by 3pt14159 9y ago
It's hand-wavy for now, but I've generally found that older more connected accounts are much less likely to be conspiratorial about this type of thing. Not attributing cause, just gives me pause sometimes.
Take your account for example. Your username doesn't obviously connect you to a real person, you don't have details in your profile, your submission history is a single article of the NYT but then again, your comment history seems real / thoughtful so you're probably a real person operating a single HN account, but when a whole topic is flooded with the same type of thinking and mostly from accounts that haven't been around that long I get a little suspicious. Of course I'm never bothered enough to put in the work to figuring it out.
- verylittlemeat 9y agoI actually have yearly reminders set in my calendar to make new usernames on sites I frequently comment on (with new registered emails, etc). People with deviant opinions value anonymity. People who have to live and work in the US don't want to be associated with anti-US opinions for pragmatic reasons.