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Does anyone know what's up with this account? They submit nautil.us and phys.org articles in rigid alternation and they seem to hit the frontpage with unlikely

Does anyone know what's up with this account? They submit nautil.us and phys.org articles in rigid alternation and they seem to hit the frontpage with unlikely regularity, especially for a religious organization like nautil.us.

LilBytes 6y ago
It's a religious site?
sli 6y ago
I think you may have mixed up Nautilus Quarterly (this site) with The Nautilus, a long defunct New Thought Movement magazine.
- bondarchuk 6y ago
  No I don't think so: https://www.templeton.org/grant/nautilus-magazine https://www.templeton.org/grant/nautilus-magazine
  - jrockway 6y ago
    Looking at Nautilus's about page, they seem to have many other funding sources (including readers). Wikipedia doesn't seem to think they are particularly religious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_Quarterly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_Quarterly
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  - tzs 6y ago
    That they give grants to something doesn't mean that thing is religious. For example, they give grants to PBS [1] [2] for Nova and I doubt many would argue that Nova is a religious program or PBS is a religious broadcaster. [1] https://www.templeton.org/grant/nova-programming-on-quantum-entanglement https://www.templeton.org/grant/nova-programming-on-quantum-... [2] https://www.templeton.org/grant/nova-programming-on-the-cosmos https://www.templeton.org/grant/nova-programming-on-the-cosm...
    - kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
      PBS broadcasts a lot of infomercials promoting quackery.
ivanbakel 6y ago
What makes nautil.us a religious organisation? And their submission history looks to me to be full of whiffs, rather than getting the frontpage with "unlikely regularity". The user could be a bot, but both of those sources are well in the curiosity-gratifying wheelhouse of the average HN reader.
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Cthulhu_ 6y ago
Probably a bot or marketing person on a schedule. The article is from a few days ago too.
hombre_fatal 6y ago
The submitter isn't the one who upvotes it to the front page, so what does it matter who submits what from where?

LilBytes 6y ago

It's a religious site?

sli 6y ago

I think you may have mixed up Nautilus Quarterly (this site) with The Nautilus, a long defunct New Thought Movement magazine.

bondarchuk 6y ago
No I don't think so: https://www.templeton.org/grant/nautilus-magazine https://www.templeton.org/grant/nautilus-magazine
- jrockway 6y ago
  Looking at Nautilus's about page, they seem to have many other funding sources (including readers). Wikipedia doesn't seem to think they are particularly religious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_Quarterly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_Quarterly
- deleted 6y ago
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- tzs 6y ago
  That they give grants to something doesn't mean that thing is religious. For example, they give grants to PBS [1] [2] for Nova and I doubt many would argue that Nova is a religious program or PBS is a religious broadcaster. [1] https://www.templeton.org/grant/nova-programming-on-quantum-entanglement https://www.templeton.org/grant/nova-programming-on-quantum-... [2] https://www.templeton.org/grant/nova-programming-on-the-cosmos https://www.templeton.org/grant/nova-programming-on-the-cosm...
  - kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
    PBS broadcasts a lot of infomercials promoting quackery.

ivanbakel 6y ago

What makes nautil.us a religious organisation? And their submission history looks to me to be full of whiffs, rather than getting the frontpage with "unlikely regularity". The user could be a bot, but both of those sources are well in the curiosity-gratifying wheelhouse of the average HN reader.

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Cthulhu_ 6y ago

Probably a bot or marketing person on a schedule. The article is from a few days ago too.

hombre_fatal 6y ago

The submitter isn't the one who upvotes it to the front page, so what does it matter who submits what from where?