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They submitted the post, and it appears as if they are giving a sort of one-line summary in the comments. At least that's what it looks like to me.
by ziddoap 4y ago
They submitted the post, and it appears as if they are giving a sort of one-line summary in the comments. At least that's what it looks like to me.
- dang 4y agoYes, people do that sometimes, perhaps with the intention of giving an intro to the article and maybe not realizing that it comes across as promotional. FWIW this submitter is definitely a legit HN user - we've been in contact via email - and this is a good article!
- teddyh 4y agoI did not interpret it as promotional. The text of the comments was so non-sequitur that I believed the account to be a straight-up bot account, posting random snippets from articles. It was only when I investigated further, when I saw that the same user also submitted all the articles, that I started to doubt my initial impression.
- teddyh 4y agoIf we’re being very charitable, we might believe that. But this is also how I’ve seen many bot accounts behave, i.e. submitting random snippets of text from the featured article.
- ziddoap 4y agoI believe being charitable is generally the best course of action. Not to mention that another user (dang himself, no less) has chimed in and said they've been in contact with them, vouching for their legitimacy. Unless you think they've now got 2 bot accounts to trick us (one of which being dang)... Or maybe I'm a bot too!
- teddyh 4y agoI believe the other user, since I happen to know that the user “dang” is the moderator here on HN.