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>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 y
by 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 agoThe 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 agoPlease 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 agomy apologies. thank you for the informative link.