Thank you, that is understandable, and imo, unsurprising fortunately. I would think HN to be a much smaller/niche community than say reddit or twitter in terms

Thank you, that is understandable, and imo, unsurprising fortunately. I would think HN to be a much smaller/niche community than say reddit or twitter in terms of users/monetisation etc, so there’s likely more efforts to manipulate content there. I have myself seen that on niche subreddits for example where bot activity is very obvious - like a 1 hour old post with more upvotes than the top post of that month. To a lesser extent it’s also visible in probably a hundred different ways on reddit (out of which I know a few, and the r/bothunters sub likely knows many more). Thanks for being a human moderator in the middle of all this!