We've banned throwaabolt and also what looks to be that user's main account.

To answer the question, it took HN only a few minutes for some users to realize this, but 2 hours for me to find out about it. Most of that time, an email was sitting in the inbox waiting. Thank you for pointing this out, and also to the user who emailed, since otherwise I wouldn't have seen this. We rely on the community to route info to us. Fortunately HN has a lot of users who care about the quality of the site.

All: if you notice anything weird, dodgy, or otherwise degrading of quality, we always appreciate a heads-up at [email protected]. HN admins are mostly a clearinghouse for things that the community notices, so this really is a shared effort.

@dang can we see if this is true, unsure if we record history. Either anon_123g987 or throwaabolt is lying here.

throwaabolt's profile account is now:

"ex-employee of bolt. ready to tackle new challenges, in particular in the fintech or insurtech areas."

I don't know what to believe. throwaabolt's futher messages:

"thank you. can my wife's boyfriend contact you too? he is part of the layoff as well."

It's true. We've banned throwaabolt and also what looks to be that user's main account.

Thank you.

False. Why would you claim this?

throwaabolt changed the profile after the GP was posted. We've banned the account now, as well as what looks like their main account.

Huh! What a weird way to troll

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what?