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It does seem to be some sort of automated spam - a mix of the article, the same chunks of disconnected factlets and some random sprinkling of nonsense. Is it po
by misnome 6y ago
It does seem to be some sort of automated spam - a mix of the article, the same chunks of disconnected factlets and some random sprinkling of nonsense. Is it possible to flag a whole account? @mods?
- wffurr 6y agoThe “random nonsense” in this particular example are the next/previous article links from the bottom of the page.
- mkl 6y agoI believe the whole account is flagged if enough comments are flagged by multiple people. I've already emailed dang.
- misnome 6y agoRight it looks like 10 months ago it was an actual account, and either got hacked to karma-farm(?) or author decided to use as a throwaway test.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoCheck out the submission history.
- afturkrull 6y agoWhere did your comment go ? https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26843586&goto=item%3Fid%3D26843068%2326843586 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26843586&goto=item%3Fi...
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoOh, it was getting a bunch of downvotes, and it didn't really add much to the conversation, so I nuked it. I'll do that. It's not the downvotes that bother me; it's that I am not really adding to the conversation. I feel that it's important to add to the conversation; not just participate. That post was mostly whining about outsourced software and CS. Not my proudest moment.
- afturkrull 6y agoI found it interesting. Instead of down-voting a comment the down-voters should post a refutal. That would add to the conversation. I'm always prepared to change my mind. Instead of getting down-voted into oblivion.