That's a good point ... it's trivial to have an agent post something onto HN on your behalf, so even old accounts are not immune. It's just the nature of things

That's a good point ... it's trivial to have an agent post something onto HN on your behalf, so even old accounts are not immune. It's just the nature of things now, until we get better technology to assign some sort of "ALIVENESS" attestation to folks without revealing identity too much.