Uganda bans social media ahead of election

Re:Uganda bans social media ahead of election by dang on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:30PM (#25754872)

Could you please stop creating 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:Uganda bans social media ahead of election by wolco5 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:59AM (#25759072)

I've created 4 accounts over four years.

wolco - which had 5000 karma over three years wolco2 - which had 500 karma over three months wolco3 - negative - one day wolco5 - active

The first one got hacked. The second one I created a super difficult password and couldn't remember when I cleared my stored passwords. The third I started off poorly by replying to a Trump thread and wanted to start fresh.

I'm not a spammer creating accounts for some purpose other than losing accounts and I would love to get back my wolco account if possible.

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Re:Uganda bans social media ahead of election by dang on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:55AM (#25759404)

Ok, I've clearly misclassified you—sorry! There are a lot of accounts doing less defensible things and it's not always easy (well, basically impossible) to tell who's up to what.

I'd be happy to help you get the wolco account back, but can you email [email protected]? The process for account recovery is best not performed in public.

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