Right, I am a HN super user.
I repeatedly get accounts to 500, then move onto a new account; no reason other than by doing so I am never able to downvote regardless of the desire to do so, let’s me easily benchmark perception of my comments & excluded community’s bias to upvote known users, it’s a minor form of OpSec, etc.
Here are a few examples:
- HN automates a lot of mod related tasks, but to my knowledge rarely prior to establishing such automation defines a measurable outcome, then tests to confirm the desired outcome holds true;
- Recently discovered user that’s been shadowban 5 years will likely never know they are ghosted unless I tell them;
- Other examples which are likely considered “secrets” that might not be appropriate openly disclose; I personally object to this;
- as for the audits, it would allow HN to get an independent opinion in a way that doesn’t result in data they normally withhold from being public.
Happy to address or clarify anything on request.
