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Comment by pc86 | Hacker News Reader

We should just prevent accounts fresher than 24 hours from posting comments.

That's not an answer. There are too many reasons someone would need to post within 24 hours of creating an account. For example, someone creates a blog post that gets posted to HN by someone else and they enter the comments to answer some questions, while the discussion is still going on.

Or scenarios where throwaways are warranted to prevent leakage of personal info. I think flagging/downvoting worked well here considering the post is an hr old.

The positive uses of new accounts (described by foldor and myth_buster) add more value than the negative ones destroy. Being open to trolls is annoying, but it's a price worth paying for having an open forum. It's particularly valuable when a knowledgeable person—often the creator of a project or the author of an article—is inspired to make an account and comment on the story they know about.

I know you're right but I don't have to like it :)

I bet you'd like it if we made a page of comments by new accounts who turned out to be experts on the story.

For what it's worth, I agree with this. Was it Fark that used to limit posts by new accounts? Someone I knew got written about on Fark and wanted to respond but couldn't because he didn't previously have an account, and as a new account couldn't add comments.

It's very rare that I see a comment flagged to deletion. This might actually be the first time I've seen it.

Happens perhaps a couple dozen times a day.

They're not truly deleted, because you can read them if you turn 'showdead' on in your profile. There is such a thing as deletion too, but only a comment's author can do it, and only for the first two hours.

How do you make an account to post an unpopular opinion?

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