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If you do that, just please realize that (1) you're signing up to see the worst that the internet brings to HN (because we don't delete any of those posts - the most we do is kill them), and (2) don't forget that you did it! We regularly get emails from users complaining about awful comments on HN, and then it turns out those accounts were banned a long time ago and the user just forgot that they had 'showdead' on.