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Very understandable… I originally didn’t have accounts when sharing it to friends. The account is really just there as a barrier to try and circumvent bots and bad actors as much as possible, even though there are still flaws. The goal was simply to have a way to force a max timer on someone so that more people can try this out
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so if you got locked out of hn, you would just never comment again?

what a strange comment

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I would assume it implies “websites that have no need to actually have an account”.

Although most time I cave in, I really understand the sentiment of the parent.

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It makes perfect sense. You are being intentionally obtuse.
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setting an arbitrary point in time where you no longer will sign up for accounts does not, in fact, make perfect sense to me.
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