[Dangeranger]

Please read the HN rules, they’re not long.

The downvote button is for low quality comments, not for disagreement. If you had been here for any significant length of time, you would know that.

It’s also a bit ironic when you say “stop spamming” from a sock puppet account you created specifically to reply to my comment, but you probably already knew that when you did it.

[oceliker]

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[Dangeranger]

I did not accuse them of astroturfing, shilling, being a bot, brigading, or being a foreign agent.

I said they were a sock puppet account created three minutes before leaving their one and only comment as a reply to my own. These claims are verifiable, and their behavior lowers the standard of discourse in this forum.

[oceliker]

Just because their account was created for this comment, does not mean the comment itself is worth disregarding. Throwaway accounts exist for many reasons.

You can address their point and move on. Leveling accusations unrelated to the point lowers the standard of discourse too.

edit: to add to this, the claim that this is a sockpuppet is not a verifiable claim.