> If I was paranoid I'd wonder how much astroturfing is going on here. Ah, good old apophasis: > a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a

> If I was paranoid I'd wonder how much astroturfing is going on here. Ah, good old apophasis: > a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis In relation to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.