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1. nomel · 1790637663 · focus · HN ↗

   > Thin accounts: few comments, low scores, no real standing in the subreddit.

   > Young accounts, or accounts with histories that are hidden or wiped.

   Nope, this is no longer an indicator of a bot account. Many that I've looked into will have active posts to local town/region subreddits (often times multiple!) and different sports subreddits, sometimes getting unusually high amounts of karma in them (which suggests a network).

   Turing test is looong dead, so no reason to assume the small fractions of a cent to make comments, to get a reasonable history, isn't being taken advantage of.

   1. drop_star · 1790638357 · focus · HN ↗

      Ya this is me. I used to use the web version now im 'required' to have an account. I just create and delete accounts every couple weeks. I use the generic Word-Word-#### and keep my history private.

      1. irishcoffee · 1790638723 · focus · HN ↗

         Out of curiosity, why? The amount of times I’ve banged out a Reddit or hn response and deleted it is almost uncountable. Why do you bother replying to Reddit comments?

         1. benoau · 1790641687 · focus · HN ↗

            You need an account just to browse old.reddit.com now, there's some extensions that do an okay job of emulating it but it's not quite the same.

            1. Akronymus · 1790671555 · focus · HN ↗

               set the cookie "redesign_optout" to true

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