Comment on Ask HN: What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot?parentComments−queensnake18yNo, S.A. is a pay site, it's some trouble to get yourself a new credit card, but on free sites you just make a new alias.−EliAndrewC18yAlthough that's true, the new account won't have any karma, which actually matters on Hacker News, since it affects whether you can downvote, etc.So while banning certainly won't have the same effect as on S.A., it can be useful despite how easy it is to create new accounts.
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No, S.A. is a pay site, it's some trouble to get yourself a new credit card, but on free sites you just make a new alias.
Although that's true, the new account won't have any karma, which actually matters on Hacker News, since it affects whether you can downvote, etc.
So while banning certainly won't have the same effect as on S.A., it can be useful despite how easy it is to create new accounts.