Comment by csomar
3 days ago
There should be some kind of moratorium on new accounts. HN's always had waves of newcomers, but their impact was always limited. The wave passes and people either get filtered out or adapt. That doesn't seem to be happening anymore, since bots can churn out endless gibberish.
He did answer you though. Native is x10 the non-native speed. 50/50 that's not a bot; though it could be a meat-proxy
> There should be some kind of moratorium on new accounts.
OC was registered in 2016 though? What do new accounts have to do with this?
I am talking about my general impression not this particular occurence. I have a suspicion that someone/some entity is buying old accounts to bypass the new accounts penalty. I even created (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-users-filter/ine...) to filter these accounts/comments (disclaimer: vibe-coded)
Just because someone has a take different to yours doesn't mean they are a bot or used in some mass manipulation effort.
What benefit exactly is achieved by selling a 2016 account (decade old) to then post about Apple potentially releasing high memory Macbooks next year?
This sort of elitism is the same nonsense that killed StackOverflow.