Ask HN: How can I make pending comments posted from a new account visible? | Better HN

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sbierwagen8y ago· 2 in thread

  I just created a new account a couple of hours ago, 
  hoping to participate in some discussion with a certain 
  level of anonymity.

Presumably, if a mod thinks you're sockpuppeting, they just ban the account.

Anyway, the only way for us to judge the validity of your claim that you put non-trivial information in them and didn't use aggressive language is to... read the comments you made. But you can't show us the comments, since you didn't want to link them to 2510c39011c5. Funny little dilemma.

2510c39011c5OP8y ago

Perhaps the question could be rephrased as, "how to make any comment posted by an account created less than 5 hours ago visible by any other accounts?"

It looks like the system does not allow a new account to initiate a discussion thread; so I have to ask with an account with a certain accumulation of karma in order to solicit that information.

sbierwagen8y ago

Obviously not all new accounts are dead-by-default, because we can see comments from new users. So either you triggered some obscure-by-design antispam measure, designed to be intentionally hard to reverse engineer, or a moderator manually banned the user.

mtmail8y ago· 1 in thread

I understand your intention. Quite a few of the responses on salary discussions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14698712) are throw-away accounts where existing HN users value anonymity.

Below the headline you should see

"1 point by [whatever that account name] 1 hour ago | flag | vouch | hide | past | web"

Click the 'vouch' link.

2510c39011c5OP8y ago

thanks for the pointing...

but for some reason that I am not quite sure, I do not have this "vouch" nor "flag" option for any of the posts that I have the read access...seems the discussion system here works in a way that involves more parameters than "karma" alone...

greenyoda8y ago· 1 in thread

Questions like this should be addressed to the moderators at hn@ycombinator.com.

2510c39011c5OP8y ago

I was hoping to get some quick solution by asking here, so I could join that conversation before its fad fades...

But yes, generally, questions like this should be emailed to the moderators and then wait for their response...

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