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Opening a Delaware Corporation: an Incorporation Guide for Foreigners

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Re: Opening a Delaware Corporation: an Incorporation Guide for Foreigners

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Post by markmccraw »

diegogomes wrote: post #40
markmccraw wrote: post #37

It seems that this post may have been artificially upvoted by the author of this post. The oldest comments are all at the bottom and are short, trivial and grayed out comments. One of those comments appears to be legit and another appears to be from a fellow Brazilian entrepreneur. However the rest are suspect. The submitter/author of the post created his account 23 days ago. The following accounts were all created 2…

We shared the post with some friends, that's for sure. But everybody seems to have liked it. ain't that a good post? We thought that by writing about our incorporation adventures we would be giving back to the community. Sorry if you didn't like it, unfortunately we can't please everybody.

The quality of the article is not the issue. It's just that if everyone behaved the way you did, HN would merely be a contest of who can call in the most favors/have the most accounts under their control.

Re: Opening a Delaware Corporation: an Incorporation Guide for Foreigners

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Post by diegogomes »

markmccraw wrote: post #41
diegogomes wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We shared the post with some friends, that's for sure. But everybody seems to have liked it. ain't that a good post? We thought that by writing about our incorporation adventures we would be giving back to the community. Sorry if you didn't like it, unfortunately we can't please everybody.

The quality of the article is not the issue. It's just that if everyone behaved the way you did, HN would merely be a contest of who can call in the most favors/have the most accounts under their control.

So now you rule here. And i can't mail my friends with my article here. Ok then.

Re: Opening a Delaware Corporation: an Incorporation Guide for Foreigners

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Post by lucianot »

markmccraw wrote: post #37

It seems that this post may have been artificially upvoted by the author of this post. The oldest comments are all at the bottom and are short, trivial and grayed out comments. One of those comments appears to be legit and another appears to be from a fellow Brazilian entrepreneur. However the rest are suspect. The submitter/author of the post created his account 23 days ago. The following accounts were all created 2…

If you feel that friends shouldn't upvote a post, fine. That's your opinion of how the community should work and you are entitled to it.

But don't accuse people of "sock puppeting" unless you have all the facts. Sock puppeting implies creating faking accounts, which is not the case and this should be easy for the admins to verify. Also, stating that they used employees to upvote is pathetic, because they have no employees!

The truth is much simpler: OP wrote a blog post about his experience, posted it on HN and shared the link with his network of friends/acquaintances (myself included). I enjoyed the post, upvoted and wrote a positive comment. Period.

What is wrong with that?? I am a real user (746 days old account) and legitimately thought the post was well written and very helpful for other starting entrepreneurs. It seems many other people also found this to be the case, as there were several links to the post in the local media, not to mention dozens of comments on the original blog. (Sock puppets too??)

In the future, I will disclose even a remote relation to an OP when I write a comment, just to be safe. But, please, don't go around making accusations based on loose facts and general suspicions. Witch-hunting is just as harmful to HN.

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