My bet is that it is regular HN readers who use throw away accounts to post this. Those are actual positions of people. They just don't want their regular acco

My bet is that it is regular HN readers who use throw away accounts to post this. Those are actual positions of people. They just don't want their regular accounts burned on them. Since posting well thought out posts on these topics will get downvoted regardless, and they already use throwaway, they don't have any reason to expend effort. So they just come out like this. They want the opposing voice to be heard but the structure here is just encouraging low effort inflammatory posts on throwaway on controversial topics instead of long posts on real account that get downvoted to oblivion anyway. I might even get downvoted to oblivion for simply having some empathy to their position regardless of how politely I wrote this.