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I think the reasoning is about having alt accounts for different purposes. He intention is to map one human to one account and have all of their thoughts from t

I think the reasoning is about having alt accounts for different purposes. He intention is to map one human to one account and have all of their thoughts from that one account, instead of one human having one account to discuss scraping on, and a different account to discuss crypto on.

dredmorbius 4mo ago
I'm pretty confident it's not that. HN's prime directive is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity": <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html> and many, many, many dang comments. I'm pretty sure that the specific gripe is posting excessively (not even necessarily exclusively) on a single topic or theme. See <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19392902 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19392902> for a more detailed comment from dang. Occasional alts are explicitly permitted, though not to engage in abuse (e.g., mutual admiration societies, sock-puppetry). See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963551> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9823379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9823379> (both against sock puppetry) and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9122086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9122086> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7504621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7504621> (on where throwaways are/aren't permitted). Where HN does favour persistent accounts the stated claim is to foster community, rather than for nefarious tracking purposes: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18082346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18082346> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>. From that last: Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

dredmorbius 4mo ago

I'm pretty confident it's not that. HN's prime directive is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity": <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html> and many, many, many dang comments. I'm pretty sure that the specific gripe is posting excessively (not even necessarily exclusively) on a single topic or theme. See <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19392902 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19392902> for a more detailed comment from dang. Occasional alts are explicitly permitted, though not to engage in abuse (e.g., mutual admiration societies, sock-puppetry). See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963551> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9823379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9823379> (both against sock puppetry) and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9122086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9122086> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7504621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7504621> (on where throwaways are/aren't permitted). Where HN does favour persistent accounts the stated claim is to foster community, rather than for nefarious tracking purposes: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18082346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18082346> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>. From that last: Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.