Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN?

Re:Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN? by thomassmith65 on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:52PM (#43443311)

I flagged this. It's the only visibility the troll in question has achieved. All his posts are dead. Only the minority of us with 'show dead' enabled need know anything about it.

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Re:Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN? by neo4llm on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:54PM (#43443332)

My Conspiracy theory is: he's trying to get people set "showdead" false.

Why would he want that though, I don't know...

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Re:Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN? by thomassmith65 on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:59PM (#43443364)

Is it worth any psychoanalysis? It's the internet.

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Re:Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN? by neo4llm on Saturday March 22, 2025 @12:05AM (#43443398)

Psychoanalysis? No

Threat analysis? Maybe

HN has value larger than for just for the community of people commenting here. It is also used as a platform for YC companies. YC Founders can even see each others usernames in orange color[1].

A spamming actor could also be testing the limits of the system now for a future attack. Anyway, this is the job an Infosec team usually deals with. Hopefully @dang / HN team has access to people with such skillset.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968246

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Re:Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN? by thomassmith65 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @12:08AM (#43443418)

  Threat analysis?

Fair enough.

It's probably as simple as 'Dan handles moderation and he's asleep'

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Re:Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN? by varenc on Saturday March 22, 2025 @01:08AM (#43443731)

It's had the opposite effect for me. He made me switch showdead back to true so I can be blissfully ignorant.

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Re:Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN? by numpad0 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @11:43AM (#43446563)

Could be symptom than disease. He's now including the word "pedo", and I don't think that is not a universally effective derogatory.

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