No, because knowledgeable people sometimes make accounts to comment on what they know about. Yes there are fakes too, but HN&#x27;s philosophy is that it&#x27;s better to deal with bad things (annoying as that is) than exclude good things.<p>We detached this subthread from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10755545" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10755545</a> and marked it off-topic.