I've noticed this as well. I've dealt with it by flat out banning any user or page that has nothing to do with HN. I will flat out never look at it again.
Now granted they could probably care less and I probably never would have looked anyway, but it works for me.
Across 4000-some users? What if it's Richard Branson? Isn't he a plausible user? Only way to fix this is add code to the circle compiler that checks for the G+ ID in public comment field here. That catches on virally, and the data gets cleaned. It's been done before for other HN groupings elsewhere.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 37.6 ms ] threadHere's the Hacker News Circle, in case you still don't have it in your circles (it's really worth it): https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts
Now granted they could probably care less and I probably never would have looked anyway, but it works for me.