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HN / Reddit votes are very easy to manipulate with State-backed funding. Best to ignore the "consensus" on online boards and make one's own decision based on av

• dang 7y ago
  Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing without evidence. It poisons the well, and the overwhelming majority of such comments are based on imagination only. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20astroturfing&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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  • munificent 7y ago
    Honest guestion: I understand that unfounded allegations of astroturfing are not helpful. But does HN have systems in place to avoid malicious manipulation like this?
    • dang 7y ago
      We have lots of anti-abuse measures, and they catch things. But of course we don't know what we don't know. The issue with unfounded accusations is not that real abuse doesn't exist (it does); it's that internet users are overwhelmingly too quick to believe that they're seeing organized manipulation when really all they're seeing is something they dislike or find annoying. Such accusations need to clear some bar or they flood the forum and do more damage to it than the abuses they're imagining would do. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20astroturfing&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...