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diggan 2y ago
> If the account is new and promoting Ruzzian narrative by denying the reality I can be 99% sure it is a paid person copy pasting arguments from a KGB manual, 1% is a home sovieticus with some free time. I'm not as certain as you about that. Last time the US had a presidential election, it seems like almost half the country is either absolutely bananas and out of their mind, or half the country are robots. But reality turns out to be less exciting in reality. People are just dumb, and spew whatever propaganda they happen to come across "at the right time". Same is true for Russians as it is for Americans.
- consteval 2y ago
  I think it's mostly a timing thing. It's one thing for someone to say something dumb, but it's another for someone to say it immediately on a new account. That, to me, screams bot behavior. Also if they have a laser focus. Like if I open a twitter account and every single tweet is some closely related propaganda point.
- simion314 2y ago
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  - dang 2y ago
    Nationalistic flamewar will get you banned here, regardless* of which country you have a problem with. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20nationalistic&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
    - simion314 2y ago
      Will I be allowed to say just provide some links instead and let the community inform themselves if I am not allowed to share my observations? Or links to real news events are also not allowed.
      - dang 2y ago
        It depends on the link, really. Most "real news events" are off-topic as the site guidelines explain: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. For a more in-depth explanation of how we look at political topics on HN, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
        simion314 2y ago
        OK< I will use wikipedia links, my problem is with Ruzzians (ZZ refers to the Russians that support invasion and war crimes) making new accounts and commenting here, we should not let this people spread misinformation here, or bring bullshit like "Russia is as bad/good as USA". At least they should use a regular , years old account so they can risk banning like I am risking when my account when debating them. Checking now I see the guy was flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ajsdawzu https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ajsdawzu but he had time to spread his stuff

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> If the account is new and promoting Ruzzian narrative by denying the reality I can be 99% sure it is a paid person copy pasting arguments from a KGB manual, 1% is a home sovieticus with some free time. I'm not as certain as you about that. Last time the US had a presidential election, it seems like almost half the country is either absolutely bananas and out of their mind, or half the country are robots. But reality turns out to be less exciting in reality. People are just dumb, and spew whatever propaganda they happen to come across "at the right time". Same is true for Russians as it is for Americans.

consteval 2y ago
I think it's mostly a timing thing. It's one thing for someone to say something dumb, but it's another for someone to say it immediately on a new account. That, to me, screams bot behavior. Also if they have a laser focus. Like if I open a twitter account and every single tweet is some closely related propaganda point.
simion314 2y ago
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- dang 2y ago
  Nationalistic flamewar will get you banned here, regardless* of which country you have a problem with. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20nationalistic&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
  - simion314 2y ago
    Will I be allowed to say just provide some links instead and let the community inform themselves if I am not allowed to share my observations? Or links to real news events are also not allowed.
    - dang 2y ago
      It depends on the link, really. Most "real news events" are off-topic as the site guidelines explain: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. For a more in-depth explanation of how we look at political topics on HN, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
      - simion314 2y ago
        OK< I will use wikipedia links, my problem is with Ruzzians (ZZ refers to the Russians that support invasion and war crimes) making new accounts and commenting here, we should not let this people spread misinformation here, or bring bullshit like "Russia is as bad/good as USA". At least they should use a regular , years old account so they can risk banning like I am risking when my account when debating them. Checking now I see the guy was flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ajsdawzu https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ajsdawzu but he had time to spread his stuff