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Many of you accused some users of our community to be fake and guilty of trying to influence the narrative, they did everything to prove their feedback was sinc

Many of you accused some users of our community to be fake and guilty of trying to influence the narrative, they did everything to prove their feedback was sincere, you gave them the benefit of the doubt. Another user postulated the same could have happened in the opposite direction (trolls trying to discredit this submission), I told him he might have a point, you label me as a conspiracy theorist. That's for sure fair.

detaro 6y ago
> I told him he might have a point, you didn't just do that. you edited your comment since I replied to it, so my comment now looks out of place. (And there is some difference between "fake" and "just signed up to help promote a thing". And yes, suggesting that is also somewhat of a conspiracy theory, but one where we know that people asking their users to help upvote and promote a HN submissions happens regularly at least)
- gioscarab 6y ago
  In my opinion your comment is clearly out of place. This post was in the first page thanks to dang, who decided to let me make a repost, after this comment generated a lot of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23589798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23589798 now 6 months ago and this post I created immediately after got huge interest although being only visible in the "show" first page because it was "flagged": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591953 and that is just the standard policy of HN. But you could have just discovered most by yourself just checking my account info, instead it looks you are prone to see conspiracy behind everything.
  - detaro 6y ago
    I responded to your (paraphrased, since you edited the comment I can't quote the exact text) "I'll say that next time", saying that you shouldn't do that because it'll look unconvincing. I am not saying that you "faked" anything, and don't think you did, but understand why it looked suspicious to other commenters, because it looks pretty much like what happens if someone tries to game the system by asking others for upvotes.

detaro 6y ago

> I told him he might have a point, you didn't just do that. you edited your comment since I replied to it, so my comment now looks out of place. (And there is some difference between "fake" and "just signed up to help promote a thing". And yes, suggesting that is also somewhat of a conspiracy theory, but one where we know that people asking their users to help upvote and promote a HN submissions happens regularly at least)

gioscarab 6y ago
In my opinion your comment is clearly out of place. This post was in the first page thanks to dang, who decided to let me make a repost, after this comment generated a lot of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23589798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23589798 now 6 months ago and this post I created immediately after got huge interest although being only visible in the "show" first page because it was "flagged": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591953 and that is just the standard policy of HN. But you could have just discovered most by yourself just checking my account info, instead it looks you are prone to see conspiracy behind everything.
- detaro 6y ago
  I responded to your (paraphrased, since you edited the comment I can't quote the exact text) "I'll say that next time", saying that you shouldn't do that because it'll look unconvincing. I am not saying that you "faked" anything, and don't think you did, but understand why it looked suspicious to other commenters, because it looks pretty much like what happens if someone tries to game the system by asking others for upvotes.