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Ah. That's good. I guess that's why it has taken a couple of hours for my comments to heavily downvoted (comments that were initially quite heavily upvoted) in
by johansch 11y ago
Ah. That's good.
I guess that's why it has taken a couple of hours for my comments to heavily downvoted (comments that were initially quite heavily upvoted) in my previous attempts at smashing obvious astroturfs - their @all-employees mail needs to get to the employees who happen to have that amount of HN karma.
I do realize that going further than this in terms of defenses would be quite a complicated thing.
- striking 11y agoOr perhaps there are people who disagree with you, and are not affiliated with that company. People who think that accusations of astroturfing are actually pretty mean, and shouldn't be made without evidence. People like me.
- DanBC 11y agoI also downvote accusations of shilling. As I understand it people should send those to the email address, and not dump them in the thread. I don't know if accusations of shilling are the kind of thing I should be flagging though.
- dang 11y agoI expect you're getting downvoted because you're pushing this too hard, making claims that exceed the evidence, and generally turning the thread into something less interesting. We share your dislike of astroturfing, but people who feel this way need to guard against their own biases as well. Taking the accusatory impulse too far is also destructive.