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Please don't go off like this here. Throwaway accounts are standard and Hacker News users are perfectly capable of incorporating that datum into their interpret

by sctb 10y ago

Please don't go off like this here. Throwaway accounts are standard and Hacker News users are perfectly capable of incorporating that datum into their interpretation. We detached this thread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14255769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14255769 and marked it off-topic.

kordless 10y ago
I'll go off anyway I like. That's what the downvote mechanism is for here, after all. Hell, the main article got flagged and pulled. Something is clearly going on. Read the article. It's rational, mostly. I will point out that large entities like Facebook may misuse this forum to their liking, and that anonymous posts who directly contradict a posting here, in this group, indicates a motive that benefits the entity doing the posting. It would be different if it weren't about something highly controversial that has no means by which a truth can be determined. FACT: Facebook will and can do anything they like to their products to increase revenue, products of which billions of people use daily to do things they think are trustworthy, when in fact they are provably not. They can also do whatever it is they are capable of doing as a gorilla entity to silence those of us who question their motives in product development. In these types of cases, we are actually NOT perfectly capable of "incorporating datum" into our interpretations, whatever the hell that means from your perspective. Frankly, I find dogmatic replies such as yours highly annoying and boring. We, the members of this group called HN, are mostly culpable for making this fucking mess of this thing we call the Internet, with it's mostly viral models and broken security. We've leveraged capital to "trick" users into using our products via viral growth models, all the while to obtain higher and higher payouts. That I come in here to try to make a small dent in the effort to combat this and am colloquially "smacked down" for it is an indication my gut is right about my assertions. People are greedy and will continue to do so as long as they have the means. So, again, I will go off how I like, when I like, and those who don't like it can do what they will to silence me. I choose to have free will, and deny those who deny that choice for myself. > -1 points by kordless 12 minutes ago BTW, Facebook, actively monitoring this article is an asinine approach to brand management. Get a life.
- sctb 10y ago
  Sorry, I should've been more specific: baseless accusations of shillage, astroturfing, etc. are off-topic on Hacker News and we ask users to email us at hn@ycombinator.com when they have concerns. It matters a lot to us and we're more than happy to investigate. > BTW, Facebook, actively monitoring this article is an asinine approach to brand management. Get a life. This is an example of such a baseless accusation—please stop.

by sctb 10y ago

kordless 10y ago

I'll go off anyway I like. That's what the downvote mechanism is for here, after all. Hell, the main article got flagged and pulled. Something is clearly going on. Read the article. It's rational, mostly. I will point out that large entities like Facebook may misuse this forum to their liking, and that anonymous posts who directly contradict a posting here, in this group, indicates a motive that benefits the entity doing the posting. It would be different if it weren't about something highly controversial that has no means by which a truth can be determined. FACT: Facebook will and can do anything they like to their products to increase revenue, products of which billions of people use daily to do things they think are trustworthy, when in fact they are provably not. They can also do whatever it is they are capable of doing as a gorilla entity to silence those of us who question their motives in product development. In these types of cases, we are actually NOT perfectly capable of "incorporating datum" into our interpretations, whatever the hell that means from your perspective. Frankly, I find dogmatic replies such as yours highly annoying and boring. We, the members of this group called HN, are mostly culpable for making this fucking mess of this thing we call the Internet, with it's mostly viral models and broken security. We've leveraged capital to "trick" users into using our products via viral growth models, all the while to obtain higher and higher payouts. That I come in here to try to make a small dent in the effort to combat this and am colloquially "smacked down" for it is an indication my gut is right about my assertions. People are greedy and will continue to do so as long as they have the means. So, again, I will go off how I like, when I like, and those who don't like it can do what they will to silence me. I choose to have free will, and deny those who deny that choice for myself. > -1 points by kordless 12 minutes ago BTW, Facebook, actively monitoring this article is an asinine approach to brand management. Get a life.

sctb 10y ago
Sorry, I should've been more specific: baseless accusations of shillage, astroturfing, etc. are off-topic on Hacker News and we ask users to email us at hn@ycombinator.com when they have concerns. It matters a lot to us and we're more than happy to investigate. > BTW, Facebook, actively monitoring this article is an asinine approach to brand management. Get a life. This is an example of such a baseless accusation—please stop.