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I haven’t seen a particular pro Apple stance, but I do see it with China posts.

• fartcannon 5y ago
  If you type literally anything negative but true about Apple, it will be downvoted into oblivion. I haven't tested China, but I wouldn't be surprised.
  • detaro 5y ago
    Sorry, but that's just bullshit. Most Apple threads here are full of criticism that isn't downvoted.
  • logicalmonster 5y ago
    When you say "shills and astroturfers" are you referring to paid advertisers? To be sure, there's a lot of paid advertisers trying to shill products on HN, but I really doubt that Apple has to pay people to defend them. I think people just naturally tend to promote things that align with their values and rip things that don't. Most technology has no real core values, so they don't inspire much passion either for or against. Only certain things really inspire a lot of passion. Apple is one of course with their design emphasis and they inspire a lot of passion both for and against. Crypto is another. 37signals/basecamp was one of those I guess. Rails was definitely another. All of these things had some outlier values that inspired passionate arguments. Emacs and VIM. Etc. You can definitely see an anti-fanboy effect with Crypto. If you're a marketer and want to farm upvotes on HN to build up fake accounts, just go in a random crypto thread and type some vapid criticism like "Sure it's great if you love money laundering" even if the criticism is out of context and you'll instantly build up your account.
  • hwers 5y ago
    Very interesting that your original comment was flagged...
    • fartcannon 5y ago
      Thank you for saying that. It's rather lonely on my high horse sometimes so I appreciate the acknowledgement.
      • hwers 5y ago
        I hadn't really seen examples of apple astroturfers personally, but now I'm practically convinced it's the case.