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From the HN commenting guidelines: >Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades disc
by hoppyhoppy2 5y ago
From the HN commenting guidelines:
>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html*
- oblio 5y agoYeah, that kind of died the day this was published: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/corporate-marketing/social-marketing/community-management/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/corporate-market... Gitlab said out loud what we were all thinking: companies have automation in place to follow big communities such as HN and notify their developer evangelists and marketing teams and have them reply and create "buzz". Aka, shills :-)
- viraptor 5y agoThere's a difference between people paid to post positive things about a project whenever it's mentioned and people paid to communicate about a project. One is shilling, the other is... communicating about a project. There's a difference and saying they're the same thing is quite cynic.
- hwers 5y agoThey should probably be transparent about it in latter case though (which they aren’t always)
- cookie_monsta 5y agoDo you think that people should be banned from commenting on things they work on? Seems counterproductive to me.
- oblio 5y agoNo. But they should be transparent about it. Which they have an incentive to not be, since at this point we're talking about real money.
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