I highly doubt it. I suggested a solution to the comment spam to him via email and he said that the spam comments get killed quickly. For anyone interested, my

I highly doubt it. I suggested a solution to the comment spam to him via email and he said that the spam comments get killed quickly. For anyone interested, my suggestion to the spam problem was to not make the URLs in a person's comments clickable until they passed a certain karma threshold. This is almost certainly due to load issues. Edit: as jpadvo pointed out, Paul has already confirmed that this is to lighten the load on the server. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118936 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118936