Well, this meta speculation about people's machinations is generally unhelpful anyway. But my claim was somewhat different; that the same article was spammed to

Well, this meta speculation about people's machinations is generally unhelpful anyway. But my claim was somewhat different; that the same article was spammed to HN three times in a 24 hours. I was surprised it wasn't flagged as a dupe and merged, which meant only the slight inconvenience that my earlier relevant comment had to be copy-pasted.