I just created a new account a couple of hours ago, hoping to participate in some discussion with a certain level of anonymity. But it looks like the comments that I submitted with that account have all been marked as "dead" by the system, and are not visible to users whose "karma" is less than a certain value. As some posts that I was replying to were submitted by some accounts with very little karma (< 300), I doubt my posts could be seen by them.<p>I tried to put non-trivial information in each of my posts, and I absolutely have not used any aggressive language. But how can I make those posts visible to some account with little karma, so I could participate in a good discussion in a timely fashion?
<p><pre><code> I just created a new account a couple of hours ago,
hoping to participate in some discussion with a certain
level of anonymity.
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Presumably, if a mod thinks you're sockpuppeting, they just ban the account.<p>Anyway, the only way for us to judge the validity of your claim that you put non-trivial information in them and didn't use aggressive language is to... read the comments you made. But you can't show us the comments, since you didn't want to link them to 2510c39011c5. Funny little dilemma.
I understand your intention. Quite a few of the responses on salary discussions (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14698712" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14698712</a>) are throw-away accounts where existing HN users value anonymity.<p>Below the headline you should see<p>"1 point by [whatever that account name] 1 hour ago | flag | vouch | hide | past | web"<p>Click the 'vouch' link.