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Comment by helloharvey | Hacker News Reader

As far as accounts go you really don’t have a choice on HN, because eventually you’ll get flagged enough to get throttled/suspended and eventually banned for being too controversial, not following groupthink, etc. Between Theranos and pandemic we’ve got a good corpus of what that looks like, and I don’t have 3-4 years to get my commentary vindicated by the same paid news actors that are causing this shit to begin with.

No offense to the mods, but community “guidelines” translates into skewed application.

As for Douglas Murray, the reviews for his books aged like fine wine.

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There's plenty of people here with accounts older than a decade. I think this is a "you" problem.

I have such an account. But HN requires burner accounts all the same.

> But HN requires burner accounts all the same.

No, it really doesn’t. They are a poor substitute for self-awareness.

It does. It would be nice if controversial statements, said in good faith, were not downvoted and flagged, but thats not a reality on HN.

Much easier to make burners, say what’s on one’s mind, and move on.

So you're not afraid of making controversial statements, but you're afraid to have them attached to your handle?

It sounds like you're a coward, honestly.

Oh no!

> It does.

Having never used a burner, been on here a little over a decade, been on the unpopular side of many arguments here, having never had a ban, and being #17 on the leaderboard, I’m pretty confident that HN does not, in fact, require burners.

> Much easier to make burners, say what’s on one’s mind, and move on.

Yes, its a lot easier to use burners than think about how you are engaging and presenting your views.

Most of us at the end of the day don’t care, certainly not enough to keep track of a leaderboard of this site LMAO.

As I said, use a burner, post and move on. Let the haters do their thing.

It brings me much joy to know that I've never had to deal with this sort of thing.

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