greenkey

I just happened to look at the top comments on a front-page HN post and noticed the following:

The comment at the top had posted 0 minutes ago and already had the top post in a substantial list of comments, and their comment wasn’t that great. Their user was created 88 days ago, had 235 karma, mostly from recent 2 submissions that each went frontpage and each got a lot of points.

The second in the list had 135 karma and has been a user for 4 months, with frontpage hits periodically on submission.

The third comment was from a user created 8 years ago that is fairly active.

I’m not trying to show how HN karma is being exploited, but this rang alarm bells for me.