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by Zak 1204 days ago
HN's best defense against that is probably that it doesn't take many flags from older accounts to kill a comment from a new account.

Whether these accounts were one person with an axe to grind, trolling by someone who doesn't really believe the arguments they were making, or coordinated activity by an organization, none of the comments stayed up longer than 15 minutes.