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Re:Ask HN: Has HN Had an Upgrade? by petodo on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:06AM (#34981915)
People switch accounts you know, I had to switch account after people set up downvote bots on my account when I had downvoted comments within minute from posting.
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Re:Ask HN: Has HN Had an Upgrade? by jraph on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:10AM (#34981976)
> account after people set up downvote bots on my account

What's the motivation behind such thing? Why bother setting up bots for downvoting accounts?

(FWIW I often get upvoted within seconds of posting)

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Re:Ask HN: Has HN Had an Upgrade? by petodo on Saturday March 04, 2023 @01:04AM (#35018623)
silent the views you disagree with by making them unreadable and it's rather trivial to set up for folks here

this stopped happening immediately after I created new account, if HN would be transparent and showing who flagged or downvoted your comment and everyone would need to provide publicly visible reason for doing it we wouldn't have this discussion

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