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You should consider the commenting guidelines > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrad
by shusaku 2y ago
You should consider the commenting guidelines
> 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.
And adhere to that culture before complaining about others
- lolinder 2y ago> And adhere to that culture before complaining about others Indeed! One might even say "you hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."
- mrguyorama 2y agoAnd of course because we are explicitly forbidden from talking about such a problem, it never happens, right?
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoIt leads to an objectively worse discussion. People posting stuff, some of which people don't like, and some of which is astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like, is a better discussion than all of that plus people accusing everything they disagree with of being astroturfing, shilling, brigading, and foreign agents - especially since the accusations are, at best, imperfectly correlated with the reality.