Fair point, I was mostly considering [deleted] since I think I've seen it in an HN thread that I came across while searching an old article. Numbers would work

Fair point, I was mostly considering [deleted] since I think I've seen it in an HN thread that I came across while searching an old article. Numbers would work just as well. I wouldn't really consider the deleted accounts to have worse comments. Especially for old threads... some users just retire their accounts, but the comments are still valuable when stumbled upon in the future.