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Yes, I see this whenever anyone posts something critical about someone’s cash pony, said pony’s owner and their pals gang up on the person. I don’t think it’s a
by notmypenguin 3y ago
Yes, I see this whenever anyone posts something critical about someone’s cash pony, said pony’s owner and their pals gang up on the person. I don’t think it’s anything high level like y-combinator related, but rather low level sock puppetry
- effingwewt 3y agoAustin Allred of lambda 'school' infamy is a perfect example of this.
- cashthrow7492 3y agoVery astute observation. Sometimes it feels like the only reason people are “going to bat”/rationalizing/etc. (glorified simping) for corporations/people of wealth or power/etc. is because they have a financial incentive to maintain good publicity else the stock they hold would be in jeopardy. I know there’s been sock-puppetry on smaller scales; but for things like FAANG/MAANGA/Elon/$latest_bigco_doing_layoffs you have people coming out of the woodwork to sing praises and “ackschtully”s, perhaps because they work there/know people that work there/or have stock in the parties involved. But other times it might just be a rationalization to preserve ego. F.e. on Blind, outright saying that FAANG et al. Might be overrated is a quick way to get a bunch of Googles and Microsofts to tell you off.