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by vova_hn2 108 days ago
This problem can be solved by an invite/vouch for system.

New account can be invited or vouched for by an old account with good karma. If an account that you vouched for starts spamming and/or slopposting, you lose your vouching for abilities for a period of time or forever.
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throwaway2037 108 days ago
I didn't know anybody here before I joined. (I have been here for a few years, and I still don't know anybody here.) How would a person like me get invited or vouched?
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vova_hn2 108 days ago
Ask you IRL friends or colleagues from your job "hey, do you happen to have an HN account?"

If the discussion is related to a public project, like in the examples in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303604

...you can use existing communication channels (website, readme on github) to ask people for an invite to participate in it.

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throwaway2037 107 days ago
I am pretty sure that none of my friends nor co-workers read HN. Whenever I have shared stuff, none of them have heard of HN.
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