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Reddit commenter implying this AMA is fake. How are HN accounts verified? How do we know this is a real AMA? Just curious.
by olantonan 10y ago
Reddit commenter implying this AMA is fake. How are HN accounts verified? How do we know this is a real AMA? Just curious.
- dang 10y agoI personally vouch that this isn't fake. (But anyone familiar with Alan's work could tell that just from reading his comments here—who could possibly fake these?) We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940227 and marked it off-topic.
- olantonan 10y ago"who could possibly fake these?" Copying from other sources. I'm not saying it's fake, just curious about verification as someone claimed so. For instance, your "vouch", are you an official HN account. How can I tell?
- dang 10y agoHN has always worked informally. We don't have 'processes'; it isn't clear that we need them, and the thought of having to set them up makes my soul cry. But anyone who has concerns about fakes, abuses, and the like can always get an answer by emailing hn@ycombinator.com. We appreciate such emails because occasionally they point out actual abuses that we need to take care of!
- olantonan 10y agoThanks for the input
- jsprogrammer 10y agoAre we viewing from the detachment pile? Or did the detachment not work? Why does the link in this thread refer to a different thread?
- olantonan 10y agoIt did not work
- BrutallyHonest 10y agoIf an answer could be confused with a "real" one then it's as good.
- gus_massa 10y agoIn this kind of cases you can send an emails to the mods hn@ycombinator.com . Most of the times dang replies very soon. (And if the story is a fake, they'd usually remove it from the front page.)
- olantonan 10y agoThanks, I'll do that. Looks legit to me, but got curious about the verification process.