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Re:Billionaires Build by dang on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:10PM (#25308033)
I don't disagree, but can you please not create accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

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Re:Billionaires Build by throwaway09223 on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:31PM (#25308355)
Yes, sorry. I started browsing HN on a new device a few weeks ago and I made a new account because I didn't have access to my other system at the time.
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Re:Billionaires Build by dang on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:54PM (#25308653)
Appreciated!
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Re:Billionaires Build by wakeywakeywakey on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:57PM (#25308693)
You could consider implementing a generic 'throwaway' account that anyone can use, since these are not expected to have continuity of discussion or identity. Or, this could be a flag on accounts or sessions.
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Re:Billionaires Build by anoncow on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:39PM (#25308456)
How did you know? From the username?
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Re:Billionaires Build by vondur on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:17PM (#25308972)
Probably via the IP address used.
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Re:Billionaires Build by pgayed on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:32PM (#25308358)
Implement the email spam solution that never was: set a nontrivial fee to create a (posting) account on hn. 10 bucks oughtta do the trick.
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Re:Billionaires Build by dang on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:54PM (#25308649)
It's important to HN that anyone be able to participate. We pay a heavy price for that in spammers and trolls, but the benefit still exceeds the cost.
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