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Post by dang » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 4:02 PM UTC

AllyRectangle wrote: post #40

dang wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course I believe you that they aren't bots, but it's against HN's rules to have friends show up to upvote and comment like this. It comes across as astroturfing, and HN's community (as you've no doubt noticed) is zealous in defending itself against this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I'm curious how this is any different from what every startup does when they launch and ask their employees/customers/friends to like and share their posts: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martykausas_we-built-a-clickf...

It's no different.

Post by jrflowers » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:03 PM UTC

andyprevalsky wrote: post #39

jrflowers wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was able to parse the sentence. I was asking andyprevalsky if they could personally expand on that boast. Like for example if somebody accused me of being a bot puppeteer I would say something like “what” or “I don’t know how to do that”. I wouldn’t outright state that I’m excellent at furtively making bots on this website because that’s not a skill or interest that I have. I suppose I could have phrased that “why…

I have no interest in botting this site, I thought that was implied from b4… HN doesn’t deserve that

So the answer is “No”, you can not elaborate on your brag about being able to make undetectable bots on this site?

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