> Maybe it’s a real person and I’m being an asshole here, but it’s hard to tell. The site guidelines are clear on this: you should assume that it's a real pers

> Maybe it’s a real person and I’m being an asshole here, but it’s hard to tell. The site guidelines are clear on this: you should assume that it's a real person and try your best to reel back these sorts of accusations, which are nearly always wrong, and nearly always driven by differences of background and (therefore) opinion. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I'm rushing out the door just now but here are a couple of past explanations about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932851 (May 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41948722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41948722 (Oct 2024) (as well as https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturf https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... of course)