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While I strongly disagree with Valve’s stance here, Hacker News isn’t meant to be used like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/does_valve_s

While I strongly disagree with Valve’s stance here, Hacker News isn’t meant to be used like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/does_valve_support_russian_aggression_against/i6vz7uk/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/does_valve_... > Post this on hackernews. … It will almost certain cause a stir. I've even seen people that have disappeared into googles customer service black hole get a response due to posting here. Fair enough, but: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/does_valve_support_russian_aggression_against/i6w736m/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/does_valve_... > Don't forget folks, go sign in and vote it up. Content is supposed to receive organic upvotes because it’s legitimately intriguing, not because a group of people got together and decided to upvote it. Organized voting detracts from the legitimacy of the content and leads HN readers to expend more of their effort questioning the content rather than the issue you’re trying to raise. Even if you’re raising a legitimate point, combined with all the new accounts commenting, that’s likely to get the post flagged into oblivion.

sgc 4y ago
Although I completely agree that Valve should be held accountable, this is an abuse of HN and I would rather see the post and new accounts removed, so we can start over correctly.
- KennyBlanken 4y ago
  You realize you're on a platform where moderators can arbitrarily boost or suppress a submission by adding or subtracting a large number of points? You realize that companies ranging from small startups to GitHub run bots that scan for posts related to their companies and have staff manuals on coordinating a response on social media, including HN? Whether you realize it or not, likely every post about a company/product on HN is being manipulated and/or full of astroturfers. Have you noticed that blog posts by a random startup nobody has heard of will get decently upvoted, just enough to stay on the first page for ~12 hours, despite there not really being anything novel or interesting about the post? A great example would be "securing SSH" posts that are just a half-assed re-write of an open source project's guide, where the 'author' didn't even bother to re-order tips. Have you noticed that signing up for an account doesn't require a pulse? No captcha, no email verification, nothin'. Have you noticed that this is a forum run by a venture capitalist firm? Ask yourself what their motivation is for keeping something like this running. If you think it's altruism...have you met a SV VCer?

sgc 4y ago

Although I completely agree that Valve should be held accountable, this is an abuse of HN and I would rather see the post and new accounts removed, so we can start over correctly.

KennyBlanken 4y ago
You realize you're on a platform where moderators can arbitrarily boost or suppress a submission by adding or subtracting a large number of points? You realize that companies ranging from small startups to GitHub run bots that scan for posts related to their companies and have staff manuals on coordinating a response on social media, including HN? Whether you realize it or not, likely every post about a company/product on HN is being manipulated and/or full of astroturfers. Have you noticed that blog posts by a random startup nobody has heard of will get decently upvoted, just enough to stay on the first page for ~12 hours, despite there not really being anything novel or interesting about the post? A great example would be "securing SSH" posts that are just a half-assed re-write of an open source project's guide, where the 'author' didn't even bother to re-order tips. Have you noticed that signing up for an account doesn't require a pulse? No captcha, no email verification, nothin'. Have you noticed that this is a forum run by a venture capitalist firm? Ask yourself what their motivation is for keeping something like this running. If you think it's altruism...have you met a SV VCer?