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People who disagree with you aren't always trolls or bots. There are people out there with differing views. Red states have internet too. And not like it just

People who disagree with you aren't always trolls or bots. There are people out there with differing views. Red states have internet too. And not like it justifies the Russians, but MediaMatters bots Reddit for the DNC. I don't think HackerNews is a big enough target for anyone tbh.

unclebucknasty 8y ago
>People who disagree with you aren't always trolls or bots >There are people out there with differing views Strawmen. >And not like it justifies the Russians, but MediaMatters bots Reddit for the DNC Citation? What's your point, anyway? This is just what-aboutism that has nothing to do with the question at-hand. Obviously. >I don't think HackerNews is a big enough target for anyone tbh The HN community is sizeable and traffic from articles posted on HN routinely knocks sites offline. Additionally, some of the sharpest technical minds online hang out here. Of course it's a rich target. Your comment is all deflection and strawmen. Not much unlike the standard propaganda of the day.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y ago
  Lol, you just yelled strawmen over and over and called my comment propaganda without furthering your point at all. You're the one who speculated there are bots here. Just because there are comments without replies and downvotes. Unless you're psychic or you know Putin you don't have any proof of that, so it's wild speculation. My point was those are more than likely real people with differing views. That's way more likely than some bot being farmed on a random topic on HN.
  - dang 8y ago
    Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN from now on?
    - s_y_n_t_a_x 8y ago
      Fair enough, I removed the unneeded sentence.
      - dang 8y ago
        "Lol, you just yelled strawmen over and over and called my comment propaganda without furthering your point at all." is also unneeded.
        s_y_n_t_a_x 8y ago
        That's your opinion. I think it was needed, and it wasn't a personal attack.

unclebucknasty 8y ago

>People who disagree with you aren't always trolls or bots >There are people out there with differing views Strawmen. >And not like it justifies the Russians, but MediaMatters bots Reddit for the DNC Citation? What's your point, anyway? This is just what-aboutism that has nothing to do with the question at-hand. Obviously. >I don't think HackerNews is a big enough target for anyone tbh The HN community is sizeable and traffic from articles posted on HN routinely knocks sites offline. Additionally, some of the sharpest technical minds online hang out here. Of course it's a rich target. Your comment is all deflection and strawmen. Not much unlike the standard propaganda of the day.

s_y_n_t_a_x 8y ago
Lol, you just yelled strawmen over and over and called my comment propaganda without furthering your point at all. You're the one who speculated there are bots here. Just because there are comments without replies and downvotes. Unless you're psychic or you know Putin you don't have any proof of that, so it's wild speculation. My point was those are more than likely real people with differing views. That's way more likely than some bot being farmed on a random topic on HN.
- dang 8y ago
  Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN from now on?
  - s_y_n_t_a_x 8y ago
    Fair enough, I removed the unneeded sentence.
    - dang 8y ago
      "Lol, you just yelled strawmen over and over and called my comment propaganda without furthering your point at all." is also unneeded.
      - s_y_n_t_a_x 8y ago
        That's your opinion. I think it was needed, and it wasn't a personal attack.