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Not surprised the only sane and accurate comment is grayed out at the bottom of the thread. HN is filled to the brink with anti-tesla shill bots. The astroturfi

• dang 8y ago
  The community is obviously divided about this. That's not the same thing as "astroturfing". The guidelines ask you not to insinuate that without evidence, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • dayaz36 8y ago
    Look at the comments. It's 90% anti-tesla and all the pro-tesla comments get down voted into oblivion. So the community is not "divided" it seems...Statistics is my evidence. The extreme slant and voting behavior of all Tesla threads, mixed with debunked misinformation peddled by oil and gas industries being presented as fact pervasively in these threads is plenty of evidence
    • detaro 8y ago
      I suggest you go look at the comments again with a bit more objectivity. Some of the most-greyed out comments are critical of Tesla, and you don't get 300+ comments just from people violently agreeing with each other.
    • dang 8y ago
      That's neither statistics nor evidence. You may be falling prey to the Hostile Media Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22&sort=byPopularity&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22... It makes things seem intensely obvious that actually aren't true. People on the other side of the fence from you are just as convinced that HN is dominated by pro-Tesla shills.