Russian trolls hit Reddit, too • Hacker News Board

Re: Russian trolls hit Reddit, too

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Post by Arubis » Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 7:08 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #68

Arubis wrote: post #29

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Please don't copy-paste. HN threads are for conversation, and that makes bad conversation.

My thoughts on this are complicated. I agree with the overall goal (namely, "HN threads are for conversation"), but disagree with the implication that this was anti-conversation--I find it disturbing that places that _should_ have conversation are so easily derailed.

I want there to be a good solution for this, but don't think we as a society have figured out a way to address deliberate manipulation that isn't worse than the problem.

Re: Russian trolls hit Reddit, too

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Post by criddell » Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 7:58 PM UTC

Quequau wrote: post #63

criddell wrote: post #5

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Consequences for what? Everybody is lying about something on Reddit, why should Russian trolls be singled out?

I'm not singling out "Russian trolls" for lying on Reddit. I'm singling out Steve Huffman for lying on Reddit. Presumably there's a distinction.

As long as he doesn't hurt the stock price, I think he can say what he wants. CEO's aren't known for being the most honest and frank people in the planet.

Re: Russian trolls hit Reddit, too

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Post by rainieri » Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 11:39 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #69

rainieri wrote: post #11

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Sorry destabilize the US government? Destabilize over the 2 options they ALWAYS have? Oh sorry you have a Republican government now. What a destabilization. So in conclusion the only dangerous thing in that election is the fact that Trump could be blackmailed. And Hillary can't be blackmailed? Hilarious. -- thanks for the downvotes.

Please don't use HN for partisan flamewar, it's seriously destructive of the site. Regardless of which side you're supporting or opposing. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Neither supporting or opposing any side. How is this a threat to HN?

Re: Russian trolls hit Reddit, too

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Post by dang » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 6:24 AM UTC

rainieri wrote: post #73

dang wrote: post #69

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Please don't use HN for partisan flamewar, it's seriously destructive of the site. Regardless of which side you're supporting or opposing. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Neither supporting or opposing any side. How is this a threat to HN?

It lowers discussion quality badly and provokes others into lowering it further.

Re: Russian trolls hit Reddit, too

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:49 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #70

All: could you please keep political talking points and the shallow-angry comment style out of threads like this? I know it's hard, but it's possible if you try. Low-information internet attack mode is the biggest threat to Hacker News these days, and when you add that acid to one thread it seeps into others. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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