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Why are all posts related to Russia's war on Ukraine always immediately astroturfed to death by pro-Putin bots?
by meghan_rain 4y ago
Why are all posts related to Russia's war on Ukraine always immediately astroturfed to death by pro-Putin bots?
- bigodbiel 4y agoSorry, buy posts like these aren't productive.
- nickthegreek 4y agoI dont see that happening on any of the current 7 comments.
- dismalpedigree 4y agoI agree. This post was on front page. By the time i tried to go back to it a few minutes later it plummeted to mid page 2.
- app4soft 4y ago> This post was on front page. By the time i tried to go back to it a few minutes later it plummeted to mid page 2 Yes, it was on HN front page.[0] But it seems like @dang immediately shadowed it manually.[0] Now You may not find actual discussion scrolling even all 15 public pages of HN's "news".[1] [0] https://twitter.com/hn_frontpage/status/1636764752759193606 https://twitter.com/hn_frontpage/status/1636764752759193606 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/news https://news.ycombinator.com/news
- pjc50 4y agoThere's a certain set of HN readers who think it's off-topic and likely to result in flamewars, and so flag political content off the front page.
- Animatronio 4y agoWhat are you talking about? There's 60 comments right now, and maybe 8 of them can be construed as favourable to putin&russia. so who's astroturfing?