Comment by ZephyrBlu
5 years ago
I find it unlikely, but not extremely so given the environment (HN). It's very plausible to me that these comments are organic and independent.
We have already had Patrick Collison and Brian Armstrong comment on this post (That I know of). I'm sure that many other high profile people in tech have since seen it as well.
The timeframe is somewhat suss, but I don't find it unbelievable.
E: other people also corroborate somewhat similar stories
To be fair the others are also very low activity anonymous accounts created within the last 12 months.
This is not at all surprising given the dynamics of the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture).
Longstanding, commenting users are incredibly rare in the scheme of things.
E: active <-> commenting
Active users are disportionately represented amongst people actively commenting, however
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