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Meta: Right now there's thirteen top level comments on this story, and only one of them isn't heavily downvoted, flagged, or dead. At least some of the commen
by chmod775 4y ago
Meta:
Right now there's thirteen top level comments on this story, and only one of them isn't heavily downvoted, flagged, or dead.
At least some of the comments on this story objectively shouldn't be flagged, because they're made in good faith by reputable accounts, while most comments could be taken straight from Facebook.
On a five hour old submission with 200 votes you'd normally expect some worthwhile discussion, but the few people who try are struggling.
- gedy 4y agoThis mirrors real life interactions with union organizers in my family (as workers). Anything less than rah rah the union you get shunned and ostracized as some business shill. These bullying tactics are why I avoid unions.
- effingwewt 4y agoLol ah, yes, Amazon is the good guy here and magically it's now the union organizers who are harassing employees. Just when I thought my eyes couldn't roll any harder.
- effingwewt 4y ago
- gruez 4y ago>If they know they are going to take a hit? Oh now its 'regular people' in the comments going to bat for a company everyone hates these days. >I have to say the worst by far is Amazon. Every post about them has this shit happen. >Obvious shills in the comments, flamebait and wars. When they can't get them to flag and get a post off the front page they do their best to muddy the waters. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "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. "
- andrepd 4y agoFair enough, but why is it that on every post critical of Amazon there's a bunch of freshly-made accounts just for the purpose of spreading fud?
- edmundsauto 4y agoSome people don't feel safe using their primary accounts due to the vitriolic responses. The community collectively creates this culture, but it's particularly spread with strong toned comments and perspectives that leave little room for discussion.
- ETH_start 4y agoPart of this can be explained by some long-established accounts that used to frequently defend American companies being banned, e.g. CryptoPunk [1], for being too incendiary. In any case, I'd suggest trying to quantify the number of new accounts taking the pro-market-freedom side, and the number taking the pro-government-intervention side, to see if the data bears out your assumptions. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CryptoPunk https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CryptoPunk
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