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Who's this dick bschmidt711 that's spamming HN?

18 points by nevster a year ago · 15 comments · 1 min read


Title says it all

thomassmith65 a year ago

I flagged this. It's the only visibility the troll in question has achieved. All his posts are dead. Only the minority of us with 'show dead' enabled need know anything about it.

  • neo4llm a year ago

    My Conspiracy theory is: he's trying to get people set "showdead" false.

    Why would he want that though, I don't know...

    • numpad0 a year ago

      Could be symptom than disease. He's now including the word "pedo", and I don't think that is not a universally effective derogatory.

    • varenc a year ago

      It's had the opposite effect for me. He made me switch showdead back to true so I can be blissfully ignorant.

    • thomassmith65 a year ago

      Is it worth any psychoanalysis? It's the internet.

      • neo4llm a year ago

        Psychoanalysis? No

        Threat analysis? Maybe

        HN has value larger than for just for the community of people commenting here. It is also used as a platform for YC companies. YC Founders can even see each others usernames in orange color[1].

        A spamming actor could also be testing the limits of the system now for a future attack. Anyway, this is the job an Infosec team usually deals with. Hopefully @dang / HN team has access to people with such skillset.

        [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968246

        • thomassmith65 a year ago

            Threat analysis?
          
          Fair enough.

          It's probably as simple as 'Dan handles moderation and he's asleep'

dlivingston a year ago

Very strange. Can't tell if they're doing it "for the lulz" or it's some sort of psychotic breakdown. Either way, good stress test for HN's spam moderation I suppose.

plasticsoprano a year ago

He’s a wittle baby that thinks Wiz doesn’t actually have a product and is a shell company designed to buy other companies and then be acquired. He’s also an hard core antisemite. And a dick.

ETA: it’s not a theory, you said it yourself the other day on the wiz post. Also, I’m not Jewish.

Jtsummers a year ago

I think the question answers itself. Some dick that's been spamming the site all day.

bediger4000 a year ago

Nobody likes a spammer.

Once a spammer, always a spammer.

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