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> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you'r
by somsak2 3y ago
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- flangola7 3y agoThat's a dumb rule that often deserves to be broken. Appeal to authority is an abdication of responsibility.
- jlund-molfese 3y agoCan we get a rule that bans copying and pasting the rules into comments? It’s just noise that lowers the quality of discussion. And most of the time, the person isn’t even breaking any rules. In this case, I’m pretty sure they were making a joke and didn’t actually think that a longtime HN user was astroturfing