[cosmiccatnap]

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[pr0zac]

Kind of interested (with no judgment implied), do you think Apple is paying people to make posts here (weirdly of stories talking about their failures) or are you using astroturfing to refer to Apple’s extremely successful work building public mindshare resulting in a fanbase that wants to constantly discuss their products (and a hate group that’s still obsessed with talking about them)?

[dang]

"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

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Edit: you did this in at least one other place recently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544081. Please don't.