Since about 2020 trolls started outright abusing HN by creating new accounts and posting straight up shit. Sometimes they don't even get banned, really, because YC doesn't want to appear controlling or something.
I see this almost every day in any thread that's even 5% "political". There are no consequences to this deranged behaviour, one might even say it's encouraged (because rightoid trolls love negative attention and a new account is two clicks away).
The main purpose of "green accounts" was so that a blog author could quickly respond to comments here, without having an account beforehand. This is like 1% of green accounts I see now.
Maybe it s due to moderation, but I have mostly seen green accounts making profoundly incendiary political statements, usually from the right. I tend to just ignore them, but I also tend to think of this as a platform that skews right because of the owners.
I see this almost every day in any thread that's even 5% "political". There are no consequences to this deranged behaviour, one might even say it's encouraged (because rightoid trolls love negative attention and a new account is two clicks away).
The main purpose of "green accounts" was so that a blog author could quickly respond to comments here, without having an account beforehand. This is like 1% of green accounts I see now.