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"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If y
by sixhobbits 4y ago
"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. "
- ouid 4y agoi flagged the post, but VPNs are not "unlikely" sources of astroturfing. I do not particularly trust the startup incubator that launched many of these VPNs to take a particularly critical view of astroturfing, so i have chosen to ignore this forum rule