> People exist, real people, who hold opinions that differ from yours, including me. Of course, but astroturfing is also a very real thing that those with mone

> People exist, real people, who hold opinions that differ from yours, including me. Of course, but astroturfing is also a very real thing that those with money to lose have no moral objection making use of, and as such it's naive to take every comment at face value. The method which one determines which comment falls into which category is variable and imperfect and always will be but it's a sense I've tried to hone. I like to try to give people the benefit of the doubt but it can be difficult to do that when, say, large number of comments parrot one of a handful of talking points with few linguistic variances or elaborations on why the commenter feels that way.