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> My identity on hackernews is over 11 years old. Creating such an identity with the comment history, connection to a true name, and content over 11 years would be very expensive. Likely more expensive that a fake passport.

Not if you have access to the HN database :^)

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Plus now with ChatGPT, you don't even have to write the comments.

Many users here are far more insightful than ChatGPT. You might get some OK comments with ChatGPT and a stray upvote here and there, but I think you're more likely to get banned if you employ ChatGPT to write your HN comments at any significant volume.

Not that everyone writes great comments, all the time, but I'm arguing you probably won't break into the 1000s of HN karma if you try to automate it (because you'll probably get shadowbanned first)

I thought there's no shadowban on HN.

There definitely is. Turn on showdead in your settings if you want to see all the comments from shadowbanned people

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