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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by aston on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @05:25AM (#139702)
Who would you think would want it? It's kinda tainted goods, no?

On the other hand, if you can convince PG you sold it to someone else, he might restore your rights...

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by davidw on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @05:52AM (#139716)
Or he might simply nuke the account entirely to put the kibosh on that kind of dealing...
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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by rms on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @05:44AM (#139710)
The username itself is pretty generic. I figure some people would love to have the huge karma number, with or without voting rights.

I'd start the auction at $0.01, I'm quite confident it would get some bids, especially with the proceeds going to charity.

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by maxwell on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @09:28AM (#139805)
Plus, you get to pose as Stallman.
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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by kirubakaran on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @01:10PM (#139965)
It would be funny if Stallman himself buys that account on eBay :-)
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