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I am agast at the comment section here. The number of people seemingly purposly misunderstanding or misrepresenting a rather simple issue is disheartening. I kn
by justtopost 8y ago
I am agast at the comment section here. The number of people seemingly purposly misunderstanding or misrepresenting a rather simple issue is disheartening. I know talk of shills is frowned upon here, but you can't really ignore it in threads like these. What is the HN approved way to call these, often high ranking, accounts out? I don't want to rock boats but this is absurd.
- grzm 8y agoFrom the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html): > "Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data." You can contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer.
- justtopost 8y agoFair enough. But the nature of the beast makes a semi-well thought out promotion and/or suppression campaign rather hard to pin down in concrete terms. Perhaps just a loyal fanbase or independent employee or 2 is responsible, but I cant exactly sumbit a smoking gun now can I? This whole policy seems rife for abuse. But I honestly don't know a better way, without introducing adjunt issues. My sincere apologies if I reduced the quality of discourse as implied in the guidelines.