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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by notduncansmith on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:35PM (#33756426)
Maybe to avoid attracting any extra attention to this user? Also, as someone who’s read HN for a few years, it only took me 2 guesses to find an account that the above comment describes (and not necessarily the same person).
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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by sillysaurusx on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:45PM (#33756541)
It was a classy move by jsnell, too. Thank you.

(I don’t know who the comment is talking about, which is how it should be. There’s no need to blow someone’s cover in a highly visible way. Even if they were satan, they’d still be welcome on HN as long as they’re writing substantive, interesting comments that follow the guidelines.)

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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate... by Normal_gaussian on Saturday November 26, 2022 @04:53PM (#33757173)
Such quality comments would track with most thorough Satan representations.
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