HN now hides comments from new users

I've just checked a random thread and can see two new posters comments on it. Zero dead comments.

It's easy to tell new posters as their username is green.

So, no, they're not, whatever you posted on a new account tripped some sort of spam or content filter or your comment was flagged as AI or something.

Is that true? What's the source?

What’s this gonna do to the platform?

If this is the case then hopefully remove some incentives for lazy grifters, spammers, AI botters. If regular users can see your comment and search engines can not I think that is perfectly fine. With time your account will not be new. This is exactly how I operated phpBB forums using ranks and it worked out great.

EnPoopification... Let 'em in early to build the brand then shut 'em out later to protect it.

The point of any media outlet is thought control, and venture capital knows the vital importance of thought control to returns on investment.

This is verifiably not true.

Here's a comment [1] written by an account that is currently two hours old. Its visible to me if I'm logged in, with or without showdead enabled. Its also visible in an incognito tab where I'm not logged-in.

As others have said, you probably posted something that triggered a filter.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553799

A significant percentage of new accounts are advertising, AI bots, account farming or other behavior not permitted by the Hacker News guidelines so it's fine if the automatic moderation system is a little heavy handed. New users whose comments have been mistakenly marked as [dead] can contact the HN site administrators directly using the information on the contact page linked at the bottom of the page to request that their comments be restored.

Crazy if you logout/login haha. Completely different comment section.

This is a new account (still green) but it was not created today. That might be the trick.

basically i won ;););) so much for your scoops "why yes i registered just to share deep apple secrets as a vp of apple human operations" dang, now you get to moderate an irrelevant forum of passable clawdbots ;)

it was over once people start copying me and nobody know who is who or what is what

nucking figure gave up so easy too