Including that one, which was downvoted three times in 0 minutes. Is that natural? I suppose it is. It'd be more shocking if companies weren't shilling on thes

Including that one, which was downvoted three times in 0 minutes. Is that natural? I suppose it is. It'd be more shocking if companies weren't shilling on these platforms. I have to admit I haven't been countering this with upvotes on my part, which is a fairly simple solution. In retrospect astroturfing [0] is not the appropriate term, previous discussion on that here [1]. Shilling on the other hand is the correct term - but there doesn't appear to be a meaningful way to distinguish between paid and unpaid shills as an observer. Perhaps my comment should've been more along the lines of "there are dissenting voices that have been buried," which on Reddit would be a callout that says "sort by controversial". Unfortunately, neither is useful for comments that aren't top-level. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19418177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19418177