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And as always with posts on Russian interference, an immediate comment a few minutes later denying and whatabouting any activity. HN is within the sights of the

• dang 9y ago
  This comment breaks the site guidelines by making insinuations about astroturfing or shillage. People are orders of magnitude too quick to leap to that conclusion, merely because other users happen to hold opposing views. It's easy to feel like no one could possibly hold those views in good faith, so if you see something you dislike enough, it must be shills, bots, or spies—but that's not correct. The HN community is large, divided on divisive issues, and has many users on both sides. If we're to survive for civil discourse, community members need to build up enough tolerance to handle it when others disagree, instead of jumping to accusations of manipulation and bad faith. All: if you're sincerely concerned about abuse, you're always welcome to send links to hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look at the data. But please don't shoot from the hip into the threads; you damage the container when you do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html p.s. I've written a great deal about this issue, if anyone wants to read more on how we approach it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturfing https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...