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I'm starting to hate how every thread slowly ends up being about the US instead of the actual topic. HN avoided this for the long time but slowly crawling up he

I'm starting to hate how every thread slowly ends up being about the US instead of the actual topic. HN avoided this for the long time but slowly crawling up here too. Reddit already past this, there is no post in almost any front page default sub without mentioning Trump

dqpb 6y ago
I’m sorry that pattern matching offends you.
- dang 6y ago
  Please don't do this here.
logotype 6y ago
Yep, it’s incredibly frustrating. Every article about CCP gets derailed or diverted. Mostly by the same predictable user ids, plus newly registered users. Given the traffic of HN I am certain that it’s the paid wumaos/shills of the CCP trying to change the narrative. Despicable!
- dang 6y ago
  It's against HN's rules to post like this. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? Note this one: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." There is a vast amount of previous explanation on the subject: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturf https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=chin%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a... The short version is that the HN community is legitimately divided on these issues, that fact suffices to explain everything we see here, and you can't make insinuations like this without some evidence. People holding differing views on a divisive topic does not count as evidence of manipulation.

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I'm starting to hate how every thread slowly ends up being about the US instead of the actual topic. HN avoided this for the long time but slowly crawling up he

by haunter 6y ago

dqpb 6y ago
I’m sorry that pattern matching offends you.
- dang 6y ago
  Please don't do this here.
logotype 6y ago
Yep, it’s incredibly frustrating. Every article about CCP gets derailed or diverted. Mostly by the same predictable user ids, plus newly registered users. Given the traffic of HN I am certain that it’s the paid wumaos/shills of the CCP trying to change the narrative. Despicable!
- dang 6y ago
  It's against HN's rules to post like this. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? Note this one: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." There is a vast amount of previous explanation on the subject: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturf https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=chin%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a... The short version is that the HN community is legitimately divided on these issues, that fact suffices to explain everything we see here, and you can't make insinuations like this without some evidence. People holding differing views on a divisive topic does not count as evidence of manipulation.