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My pet conspiracy theory is there is a fair amount of coordinated manipulation to get political posts on the HN front page. Fortunately, they are often quickly
by next_xibalba 11mo ago
My pet conspiracy theory is there is a fair amount of coordinated manipulation to get political posts on the HN front page. Fortunately, they are often quickly flagged to the abyss.
- GOD_Over_Djinn 11mo agoThat’s not a conspiracy theory. Anyone who doesn’t realize at this point that online discourse is heavily engineered and manipulated is an unthinking rube.
- next_xibalba 11mo agoI think many like to think HN is excepted.
- flag_fagger 11mo ago> Anyone who doesn’t realize at this point that online discourse is heavily engineered and manipulated is an unthinking rube. We call that “the voting populace”