I wish there was more transparency regarding similar shenanigans around here. dang's message to Jeff Geerling was revealing. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/

I wish there was more transparency regarding similar shenanigans around here. dang's message to Jeff Geerling was revealing. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-almost-got-banned-hacker-news https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-almost-got-banned-h... > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30273905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30273905 was heavily upvoted by a criminal spam service that steals accounts from HN users and then sells upvotes and comments using the stolen accounts. That's basically the equivalent of a capital offense on HN and we ban accounts and sites that do it. Don't think that we are too small to matter. Even on our tiny community, stealing accounts and selling upvotes/comments is lucrative. There is also a recent intel report which says bad actors have been moving to "alternative online mediums" but they (frustratingly) don't list them. https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/NIC-Declassified-ICA-Foreign-Threats-to-the-2022-US-Elections-Dec2023.pdf https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/NIC-Dec...