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If anything, you've just convinced me even more that this is some propaganda campaign: Two of those posts are from accounts that are less than a month old. One of them has a first post in /r/shadowban to see if the account is globally shadow banned or not. Also posting in /r/FreeKarma4U for similar reasons. Common for troll/bots. One of them reposted an obviously fake post about wife having cancer. The original accou…
It's not unusual for new accounts to make posts that reach the top 5 of a subreddit. Your HN account is only 19 days old, and your very first comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223698 ) was a politically charged message that was flagged to death. Are we supposed to be concerned about that? Where is the evidence that the cancer story is fake? It's common for individuals in the U.S. with health conditions…
Yes it is. It's unusual, and mostly impossible on larger subreddits (automode). Subreddits designed for propaganda though...
>Your HN account is only 19 days old,
This isn't reddit, I'm not making karma farming posts, and there haven't been federal investigations and congressional hearings that confirmed HackerNews is a known target for propaganda campaigns.
>and your very first comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223698) was a politically charged message that was flagged to death.
Wasn't politically charged, it was just inconvenient facts. Also wasn't flagged, it was auto-killed.
>Are we supposed to be concerned about that?
Concerned about uncomfortable facts?
>Where is the evidence that the cancer story is fake?
It's hilariously obviously fake, don't be so gullible. The OP of the "story" got a permanent suspension.