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Cause spammers would buy a new domain and do the same thing again, as opposed to plausible denyability.


they can do that without the list. as soon as you see your post doesn't get traction, make a new domain, or have multiple in the first place.


The vast majority of all posts get ~0 traction. Even prolific posters of highly-upvoted links like todsacerdoti* are probably only getting around 1 in 10 to the frontpage at all, let alone for a meaningful period of time.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=todsacerdoti


Have you ever checked /new? Not getting any traction is the default, not an exception. Plenty of submissions end up with no upvotes and very few clicks, hence plausible denyability.




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