[yomkippur]

think a lot of saas/developer tools/open source in corporate clothing are manipulating opinions, flagging, censoring criticisms. you can buy HN votes/aged accounts like Reddit.

noticed this especially when a YC company is in the submission. its funny because all they are doing is selling to the same buyers (many who are also YC companies) creating a sorta ponzi scheme where you constantly have a supply of "IPO ready" to take advnatage of the bubble which is now bursting and you have increased astroturfing

HN used to be above this. I feel increasingly that many submissions are just purely marketing hidden under a FREE sign.