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What's interesting is that this thread is getting a ton of new accounts defending Google. Suspicious.

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Good to know.

Weird rule to have though.

The rule exists to try to dampen what is probably the worst kind of toxicity we see here. I've written about this extensively; if you page back through https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... you'll find plenty of explanation.

It's also pretty common for people to create new accounts to post things they wouldn't otherwise post on their mains, isn't it?

Probably, that's why I said suspicious but didn't do finger pointing.