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I have no idea what you are talking about and downvoted you for the drive-by stupidity, not because I (necessarily) disagree with you.
by jacalata 11y ago
I have no idea what you are talking about and downvoted you for the drive-by stupidity, not because I (necessarily) disagree with you.
- samstave 11y agoContext: some time ago on reddit there was a post about the most popular cities that use reddit. One of the cities was the one where Eglin Air Force Base is in Florida. It is known that the cyber-ops team is based from there. There was a lot of astro-turfing going on, and in one of the wikileaks(?) post that came out - it was revealed that one of the founders of reddit was attempting to sell his services to the USG and others to show them how to drive/control/manipulate online sentiments (shilling). There are a number of other cases about this online and in reddit in particular. My comment was based on the fact that anything negative about GS appears to be immediately downvoted regardless of the veracity of the statement, if it even appears to be slightly negative. My statement, then, is that I feel that GS is running/paying for a service to monitor any mentions of them and either (on social sites that allow votes) downvote these statements or, at times, post shill responses. However, on a site like HN, any overly positive response to any denigrating response to GS would certainly be too transparent as astro-turfing, thus they simply downvote.