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Re:Google is making a huge and annoying mistake by sad_panda on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @03:16PM (#3920663)
Not just Reddit, HN derives tremendous value from quality commenting.

Commenting with zero accountability (authenticated accounts, voting, flagging, whatever) is basically doomed to be awful and a net negative to the service.

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Re:Google is making a huge and annoying mistake by AkThhhpppt on Thursday May 03, 2012 @09:10AM (#3923666)
"Very likely to be" - yes, definitely. "Doomed to be" - not even nearly. There are blog communities I've been a part of that knock HN comments out of the ring, with zero friction to comment (a name and email address are required, but that email address is never validated). It's about moderation and caring enough to grow a community, not the specific mechanism you use to do that.
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