[joe_mamba]

>48-days old account

Since when is the quality of arguments and the understanding of economics and politics tied to the age of your account? Is this how arguments are won here? Age discrimination goes against HN rules. Your opinion on global events is not automatically more correct than others just because you've been on HN 10 years longer than others.

>posting doubious takes like this

Universally recognized and factually proven facts = dubious to you?

What (counter-)arguments do you actually bring to this discussion, other than throwing ageism and baseless accusations at people as your strategy to discredit their opinions you dislike?

That's exactly the opposite of the HN rules.

[lynx97]

They're trying to imply that fresh accounts might be used to steer opinions, IOW, they're trying to imply that you are a politically motivated kind of bot...

I agree, its a rather shady approach. But here you go, we'll get more and more of this, its a conveneient method to discredit discussion partners with unwanted opinions.

[throw20251220]

It's also a little bit more prevalent since after 5 or 6 comments you get soft-banned for hours, cannot have a decent discussion here anymore.

[joe_mamba]

Except mine is not a fresh account though. THis is just moving the goalposts in search of vapid things to discredit people for unpopular opinions without arguments.

Calling people whose opinions you dislike but can't refute as "bots" is the lowest of the low copes of losing arguments.

Not accusing you of this, just pointing out the hypocrisy of those doing it.

[stingraycharles]

Your response is, completely expected, an appeal to outrage.

You’re asserting that account age shouldn’t matter, and that any scrutiny is morally illegitimate.

Nobody is discriminating against you. It’s just that account age is one of the few signals that an online platform has to go by.

HN absolutely recognizes this in their policy, considering that they give new accounts an entirely different color to make them stand out from the rest, and that they don’t allow downvotes unless your account has achieved a certain karma level.

[joe_mamba]

>Your response is, completely expected, an appeal to outrage.

How do you react towards ageism and discrimination?

>It’s just that account age is one of the few signals that an online platform has to go by.

None of that invalidates or even addresses my arguments. It's still about exclusion of people based on account date rather than WHAT they say.

>HN absolutely recognizes this in their policy, considering that they give new accounts an entirely different color to make them stand out from the rest, and that they don’t allow downvotes unless your account has achieved a certain karma level.

Except that my account is not green, and I AM allowed to downvote.

[jamespo]

Hey it's not just ageism, you're also anonymous!

[joe_mamba]

The goalposts always move whenever you want to discredit someone but don't have any valid counter arguments to their arguments. It's either the age of your account, the karma you have, your username, anything but saying why your argument is wrong.

[jamespo]

Never mind you can start another alt

[gosub100]

Did you check what zodiac sign the account was created under too? That's another signal for you.