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> [Dis]claimer: I have no long or short in AAPL. Anyone posting or voting in this thread should similarly disclose. It’s extremely weird to me to assume that a

• kps 6y ago
  I still think that comments here, which require some minimal creative effort and are attached to identifiable user names, are usually somewhat legitimate, and more likely to be from fanbois than financiers. Voting to amplify or silence perspectives, on the other hand, entirely lacks accountability. (I'm curently taking bids on an HN account with 4575 interweb points.)
• notafraudster 6y ago
  It seems to me that the reverse is more likely at the scale of most people on HN: people emotionally invested in a brand use disposable income to buy shares of the brand (or, the reverse).
• Shorel 6y ago
  It's the other way around, some opinions are intended to influence their stock portfolio value.