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tptacek is clearly a fake account! No one can post that much upvoted stuff for such a long, sustained period. Someone ban him!

by swombat 13y ago

sneak 13y ago
It's almost as if he exactly followed his own advice about growing a business, and now has the free time to sit around commenting on HN all day. Bots these days. :D
- chc 13y ago
  Wait, tptacek gave advice about growing a business? I thought he just preached the ills of DNSSEC and homebrew cryptosystems. EDIT: Oh no, my karma superstardom!
  - tptacek 13y ago
    I wish there were more DNSSEC threads because I do not feel like I have run out of bad things to say about DNSSEC.
tptacek 13y ago
I asked to get taken off the leaderboard! It's frankly embarrassing. Obviously, my karma score doesn't mean anything anymore; it's a function of name recognition, of the fact that I happen to post in a style (rambling paragraphs) that HN rewards, of the fact that I comment a lot, of the fact that I try to keep myself confined to topics where I have a lot of background knowledge, and of the fact that people follow my comments. There's nothing to learn about me at all from my karma score. From my comment frequency, sure: you'd learn that I comment a lot. I don't IRC, I don't game, and I no longer blog; I treat HN like I used to treat Usenet. Also, we hire from HN, and so I have a Pavlovian thing going on with commenting. Every once in awhile I consider switching to "tptacek_" or something, but that's just giving the embarrassing karma score more power over my life. I liked Slashdot's approach to this, which was (when I was there) that above a threshold your score just became "Lots".
- antonios 13y ago
  Upvoted. You won't get away that easily.
- deleted 13y ago
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mathattack 13y ago
Has anyone seen tptacek and Harriet Klausner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Klausner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Klausner) at the same place at the same time? Does an upvote for one count for both? Bot or person, I find his (their?) comments insightful though I don't follow explicitly.

tptacek is clearly a fake account! No one can post that much upvoted stuff for such a long, sustained period. Someone ban him!

by swombat 13y ago

tptacek is clearly a fake account! No one can post that much upvoted stuff for such a long, sustained period. Someone ban him!

sneak 13y ago

It's almost as if he exactly followed his own advice about growing a business, and now has the free time to sit around commenting on HN all day. Bots these days. :D

chc 13y ago
Wait, tptacek gave advice about growing a business? I thought he just preached the ills of DNSSEC and homebrew cryptosystems. EDIT: Oh no, my karma superstardom!
- tptacek 13y ago
  I wish there were more DNSSEC threads because I do not feel like I have run out of bad things to say about DNSSEC.

tptacek 13y ago

I asked to get taken off the leaderboard! It's frankly embarrassing. Obviously, my karma score doesn't mean anything anymore; it's a function of name recognition, of the fact that I happen to post in a style (rambling paragraphs) that HN rewards, of the fact that I comment a lot, of the fact that I try to keep myself confined to topics where I have a lot of background knowledge, and of the fact that people follow my comments. There's nothing to learn about me at all from my karma score. From my comment frequency, sure: you'd learn that I comment a lot. I don't IRC, I don't game, and I no longer blog; I treat HN like I used to treat Usenet. Also, we hire from HN, and so I have a Pavlovian thing going on with commenting. Every once in awhile I consider switching to "tptacek_" or something, but that's just giving the embarrassing karma score more power over my life. I liked Slashdot's approach to this, which was (when I was there) that above a threshold your score just became "Lots".

antonios 13y ago
Upvoted. You won't get away that easily.
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mathattack 13y ago

Has anyone seen tptacek and Harriet Klausner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Klausner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Klausner) at the same place at the same time? Does an upvote for one count for both? Bot or person, I find his (their?) comments insightful though I don't follow explicitly.