Throwaway Account Suspicion

This cluster consists of comments questioning or expressing suspicion about users creating new or throwaway accounts on Hacker News solely to post a single comment, often implying motives like trolling, spam, or avoiding accountability.

➡️ Stable 0.6x Other
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Keywords

ycombinator.com LOT HN FUD account account just new account created throwaway accounts post create comments comment

Sample Comments

romeodelight May 24, 2012 View on HN

Funny that you have to create a throw away account just to say that :P

coeneedell Dec 20, 2025 View on HN

You made a throwaway account to say this?

bduerst Jun 4, 2020 View on HN

You created two new accounts back to back just to comment this - why?

JSDevOps Jul 22, 2024 View on HN

Like how someone created a new account for this

micampe Oct 23, 2014 View on HN

Why did you need to create a throwaway account for this comment?

Takennickname Jul 27, 2023 View on HN

5 minute old account with just this comment. Very sus.

milkshakes Feb 29, 2012 View on HN

wait, you really created an account just to say this?

scandox May 3, 2017 View on HN

Because new accounts are green and his account is a throwaway account which he just created for the purpose of making this single comment.

colejohnson66 Sep 21, 2022 View on HN

What's with these accounts created just now for this post?

sunaookami Dec 1, 2025 View on HN

The account is also just 3 days old and was made for this one post