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is this for real? an ad for a paid extension is #1 on hn? also with tons of comments missing articles? Come on..

by unityByFreedom 7y ago

martin_a 7y ago
Capitalism, fuck yeah! :-)
- unityByFreedom 7y ago
  How is capitalism responsible for lousy actors? Plenty of propaganda came from communism as I recall.
  - frockington1 7y ago
    Hacker news strictly adheres to the Reddit mantra that USA/Capitalism === bad, EU/Socialism === good.
    - martin_a 7y ago
      Whenever something about social systems in the EU comes up it's just the other way around. Strange...
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. That's definitely not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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oefrha 7y ago
All these unsubstantial “I love it” comments are indeed very suspicious. Not to mention many browsers have this feature built in. (I know this post is treading the line on insinuations about shilling. Sorry dang.)
- deleted 7y ago
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- unityByFreedom 7y ago
  For posterity, here's what it looks like right now, this post: http://archive.is/c3Mpu http://archive.is/c3Mpu front page: http://archive.ph/HKaBA http://archive.ph/HKaBA (#4 now, it was #1 a few minutes ago)
- 2jaer 7y ago
  Yeah, seems to be his twitter friends and/or groups
  - dang 7y ago
    It's against HN's rules to ask friends to upvote and (especially) to post comments in threads. We want people to upvote and comment because they ran across something that they personally found intellectually interesting, not because a friend has something to promote. Promotional use of HN voting and commenting is opposed to the spirit of the site, and the community is adamantly against it, as you can see from the comments making objections to the earlier pattern in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
    - unityByFreedom 7y ago
      Thank you for drawing this line clearly. Frequently elsewhere I see mods decrying self-promotion, yet there should be nothing wrong with posting your own material (otherwise, what is the internet for, only consumption?). The problem comes when you beg people from outside the community to give you recognition through forced comments/votes.
- mikaelmello 7y ago
  To be fair, mine was honest ;) I have been missing something like this on Chrome but never went looking for it, until it appeared here on HN. It is sad though that the product owner has asked people from outside to upvote and even comment this post.
ryzalyusoff 7y ago
There's a free and paid version of the extension. You don't have to pay for the free version

is this for real? an ad for a paid extension is #1 on hn? also with tons of comments missing articles? Come on..

martin_a 7y ago

Capitalism, fuck yeah! :-)

unityByFreedom 7y ago
How is capitalism responsible for lousy actors? Plenty of propaganda came from communism as I recall.
- frockington1 7y ago
  Hacker news strictly adheres to the Reddit mantra that USA/Capitalism === bad, EU/Socialism === good.
  - martin_a 7y ago
    Whenever something about social systems in the EU comes up it's just the other way around. Strange...
dang 7y ago
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. That's definitely not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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oefrha 7y ago

All these unsubstantial “I love it” comments are indeed very suspicious. Not to mention many browsers have this feature built in. (I know this post is treading the line on insinuations about shilling. Sorry dang.)

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unityByFreedom 7y ago
For posterity, here's what it looks like right now, this post: http://archive.is/c3Mpu http://archive.is/c3Mpu front page: http://archive.ph/HKaBA http://archive.ph/HKaBA (#4 now, it was #1 a few minutes ago)
2jaer 7y ago
Yeah, seems to be his twitter friends and/or groups
- dang 7y ago
  It's against HN's rules to ask friends to upvote and (especially) to post comments in threads. We want people to upvote and comment because they ran across something that they personally found intellectually interesting, not because a friend has something to promote. Promotional use of HN voting and commenting is opposed to the spirit of the site, and the community is adamantly against it, as you can see from the comments making objections to the earlier pattern in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
  - unityByFreedom 7y ago
    Thank you for drawing this line clearly. Frequently elsewhere I see mods decrying self-promotion, yet there should be nothing wrong with posting your own material (otherwise, what is the internet for, only consumption?). The problem comes when you beg people from outside the community to give you recognition through forced comments/votes.
mikaelmello 7y ago
To be fair, mine was honest ;) I have been missing something like this on Chrome but never went looking for it, until it appeared here on HN. It is sad though that the product owner has asked people from outside to upvote and even comment this post.

ryzalyusoff 7y ago

There's a free and paid version of the extension. You don't have to pay for the free version