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		thaumaturgy on March 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments It should be obvious whether such an answer sounds authoritative or not, and it sounds like a comment could still be downvoted once endorsed. So I don't think this is as big of a problem as users endorsing (or not endorsing) based on username.

jiggy2011 on March 22, 2014 [–]

There's also certain commentators who are more authoritative on certain topics, because they are known to have positions at certain companies etc.

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