[tuxie_]

Given the comments I'm used to seeing in general in HN, the over excited tone of the comments in this post makes me wonder how truthful all the praising is, or if they are related to the company in any way. Maybe HN is actually full of people who build internal tools and find this honestly awesome and a game changer.

[preommr]

I am a coward so I didn't want to be the first one to say it, but so many of these comments are so suspicious. The really positive ones seem to have like 1-2 karma.

[eatonphil]

Eh I don't see too many like that and even if some customers do show up to give meaningful testimony I think that's fine and useful. The few that are meaningless got voted down and will be dead soon.

[tuxie_]

To be fair, you are right, now, because when I first opened the discussion there was only 1 critic comment and the rest was overly enthusiastic praise. It really stood out from the usual tone of the discussions.

[verdverm]

It was more concentrated when the post had fewer comments. HN regulars are now more of the comments.

[pvg]

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [e-mail] and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[verdverm]

It definitely seems like they told / scheduled this with their users. There are definite ones based on their comments.

tl;dr, they did not read the FAQ and broke the HN rule are thinking of

[tuxie_]

I didn't check every user but I did find a couple that had not posted anything in years until now. Makes you wonder.