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Comment by mmit | Hacker News Reader

What kind of joker correlates the % of people visiting hacker news to the hackers. You are retarded - don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Its like saying - lets see how many people visit a second grade news site which has a finance section, and that would indicate the geographical distribution of people interested in Finance.

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A good feature for HN would be if someone adds a new account (one minute ago when I checked this one), submits some sort of trolling or moronic comment that gets down-voted a few times (which hopefully this one will), it should be flagged, looked at by an admin, then just purged. Obviously no good intentions with the creation of the account or the comment.

Perhaps it's an inherent problem with HN? Disposable accounts for when you want to say something that may/will be voted into the negatives.

Even so, I don't think purging poor comments is the correct idea. I myself have been learning what is/is not acceptable here by reading said poor comments.

The discussion spawned by the poor comment sometimes more than compensates for the little irritation the downvoted comment brought.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

might be a troll, but i wouldn't 100 percent count on it. if you're new to a site and want to get attention quickly, what better way than to make a trolly-sounding comment that everybody will pile on immediately.

it takes some people awhile to realize that it doesn't work that way around here.

Does anyone have this kind of data? I think we lack a standard definition of what a hacker even is, let alone usable metrics. Prove me wrong if you can, it would be incredibly interesting.

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