alt Hacker NewsSomething felt off about your comments, so I checked your account. You signed up almost six years ago, and in all that time made zero submissions and your only comments are these two on this thread? I’ve been seeing this more and more on HN. What exactly is going on here?
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spprashant • yesterday at 2:25 PM
Looks like they logged in the first time in years to make a post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975123
And decided to jump in on some threads just as well.
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greenchair • yesterday at 1:40 PM
HN is a psy-op.
This perfectly describes my former experience with Reddit: I used to browse quite frequently without being logged in. If I wanted to post a reply badly enough to bother with logging in, I would then start commenting on other parts as well; the next day I'd likely be logged out again and not be willing to bother with signing in again for a few more months. Though this did change when the I started using mobile apps more.