On the other hand, it wasn't a very trollish comment. Certainly not bigoted, unless it has been edited since you commented! Would you like to revise that description?

Another explanation of the young account phenomenon would be that there is nowadays a larger proportion of people who read the site without accounts and therefore that more comments are from first-time commenters. Perhaps certain types of stories attract more first time commenters. But if it is true that there are more comments from young accounts nowadays, I do agree that that's interesting. The data's available to answer that I believe; anyone know?