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slightly offtopic: The user id - coconuts2314 - looks like a bot. Look at all the submissions and only one lame comment. Shouldn't the HN spam algorithms detect this?


There are a bunch of these. I don't think 'pg cares.


We ban them when we notice them. It's on my todo list to write some code to do it automatically, but my todo list is long.


Good to know. I thought this might have been a place where you figured the voting system sorts it out in the end.


Not spamming, just don't have much time to spend commenting in the forum...




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