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people are paying hacker news commenters to post this stuff?
by crummy 4y ago
people are paying hacker news commenters to post this stuff?
- salad-tycoon 4y agoI think he is saying it’s group think as in “who taught you to think that?” As in, it’s a popular opinion not necessarily carried with the intention of deceit or financial gain of the individual but never the less a coaches or programmed response. Like fanboys.
- zaroth 4y agoI don’t know about “astroturf” and I don’t use Brave or follow it particularly, but the qualms with Brave’s insertion of referral codes and the negative comments around their apology all seem to miss the mark or seem vendetta-ish / politicized. For example; complaining about privacy, (which was entirely unaffected) or complaining that they couldn’t have possibly done it by mistake (which is not what they said happened). When I see repeated comments saying wrong things emphatically, it certainly sets off a bit of a radar.
- japaneseminisub 4y agoProbably more like a PR firm or social monitoring/management company is being paid a princely fee to monitor for things like this and then forum slide, distract, change topic etc. Source: I work in the same office as one of these companies. They don't work for Google but for another big, well known social platform.