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Almost all HN accounts with plain first name (peter,john etc) are Fake ?
Just check out any id of the form:
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=james
For all common names like :
bob,james,john,mary,thames,peter
and many more, I could see that they had no submissions, 1 karma, and created 1250+ days ago.
Anyone else noticed this? Wonder why.
- donohoe 16y agoMaybe some people registered to hold the username and then neglected it?
- pg 16y agojames looks like a legit account. It has a real email address. Accounts aren't only created to post; they're also created to apply to YC.
- throwAway_29 16y agoWas wondering how I missed seeing an address on that profile.. then I saw who wrote the comment :-) Thanks for the clarification, Pg! Just couldn't help wondering about it- seemed weird to notice that many first-names account not posting/commenting, but just existing.