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A bunch of accounts created in the last hour or so have left inane comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955624 https://news.ycombinator.com/ite

A bunch of accounts created in the last hour or so have left inane comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955624 created 20 mins ago 1 comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955469 created 48 mins ago 1 comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955575 created 20 mins ago 1 comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955523 created 44 mins ago 1 comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955323 created 10 hours ago 1 comment

njsubedi 6y ago
This. Since I don't have enough karma to downvote, I've replied "Spam alert!" under those comments. Update: looks like you included links to the suspicious comments.
jamil7 6y ago
Did OP buy upvotes? or is it a coincidence?
- ericvanular 6y ago
  These aren't bought upvotes!
ericvanular 6y ago
Not intentional or requested on my part. Please feel free to delete those comments mods
- dang 6y ago
  I believe you that you didn't request them explicitly, but it's clear from the data that those were posts by friends or fans who thought it would be a good way to help you out. In reality, booster comments are the worst thing that people can do to help their friends on HN, because the community here sniffs them out at truffle-pig levels and regards them as spamming.
  - ericvanular 6y ago
    Thank you for the feedback! I'll try to prevent newcomers commenting next time
atakiel 6y ago
I'm reading those comments just as a sign that people feel strongly about climate. There's a lot of talk about the need to do things for the environment, but not much visible work done. This service is that kind of meta level service, which could in theory create a lot of possibilities for individual people to change the world for better on the grass root level [1]. I think these commenters just created their accounts because they wanted to take part in discussion, due to the subject being special enough for them to make the move from the stance of passive reading to contributing to the discussion. I think there are valid points. Then again, maybe I'm just naive. [1] The change can only happen through the system, and for that, the right people need to be doing the right decisions. It's highly unlikely that we could just scrap the current work and go full tesla on all fields of life. (Not that tesla would be environmentally sound in itself.)

njsubedi 6y ago

This. Since I don't have enough karma to downvote, I've replied "Spam alert!" under those comments. Update: looks like you included links to the suspicious comments.

jamil7 6y ago

Did OP buy upvotes? or is it a coincidence?

ericvanular 6y ago
These aren't bought upvotes!

ericvanular 6y ago

Not intentional or requested on my part. Please feel free to delete those comments mods

dang 6y ago
I believe you that you didn't request them explicitly, but it's clear from the data that those were posts by friends or fans who thought it would be a good way to help you out. In reality, booster comments are the worst thing that people can do to help their friends on HN, because the community here sniffs them out at truffle-pig levels and regards them as spamming.
- ericvanular 6y ago
  Thank you for the feedback! I'll try to prevent newcomers commenting next time

atakiel 6y ago

I'm reading those comments just as a sign that people feel strongly about climate. There's a lot of talk about the need to do things for the environment, but not much visible work done. This service is that kind of meta level service, which could in theory create a lot of possibilities for individual people to change the world for better on the grass root level [1]. I think these commenters just created their accounts because they wanted to take part in discussion, due to the subject being special enough for them to make the move from the stance of passive reading to contributing to the discussion. I think there are valid points. Then again, maybe I'm just naive. [1] The change can only happen through the system, and for that, the right people need to be doing the right decisions. It's highly unlikely that we could just scrap the current work and go full tesla on all fields of life. (Not that tesla would be environmentally sound in itself.)