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People aren't downvoting this within 7 minutes of you posting.

• thrwwy190401 8y ago
  >People aren't downvoting this within 7 minutes of you posting. Obviously they are, or OP wouldn't have added that edit. You can see your comment scores (as you know.) Interestingly, I just read that China employs people to influence social media. (Which Hacker News would fall under, I guess.) What I read was this, I'll quote it in full: >China does this with its 50 >Cent Party: people hired by the government to >post comments on social networking sites >supporting, and to challenge comments >opposing, party positions. This is from a book on privacy by a famous author. It would be interesting to know if the people mentioned post to HN.
  • floren 8y ago
    The recent story about Apple disabling their News app in China got flagged over and over in the first hour or so, but I don't know if that was wumao or Apple fans doing it for free :)
  • dang 8y ago
    Please don't break the site guideline which asks you not to insinuate astroturfing on HN. See my recent explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19538691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19538691. Plenty more at 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....
    • thrwwy190401 8y ago
      my apologies. thank you for the informative link.
• pleasecalllater 8y ago
  Well, it got downvoted in the first 2 minutes.