Ask HN: Why does Keybase.io require karma 1?

Posted by tkeeler on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:35PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Just created my hackernews account and went to prove my identity with Keybase.io and received this message:

> ATTENTION: HackerNews only publishes users to their API who have karma > 1.

Does anyone know why this is the case? I'm curious to how they see this proving into identity... Or is it purely an abuse mechanism?

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Keybase.io require karma 1? by phillipseamore on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:30PM (#20861574)

People where posting their hashes as new submissions which is not an acceptable way.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Keybase.io require karma 1? by mtmail on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:22PM (#20861541)

Keybase wants to link to active HN accounts, not those created an hour ago. I think that's understandable.

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