I don't think so :), we're not that important. So far only 3 comments have been seriously downvoted -- one of them presented seemingly unfounded information, the other one was simply unfunny trolling that should not be on HN, the third one was mostly off-topic.
Because of - to some extent understandable - reasons MS hate is still quite strong among this community but destroying an MS-related thread is unnecessary.
Do you really think a site has to be "important" to be targeted? To influence public opinion it seems like you'd just want to blanket influence as many popular websites as possible. It wouldn't take that large a team to do it given the right software.
I've suspected for a while that the NSA has some kind of software like google alerts that monitors the top 1000 relevant sites and detects when they are being talked about so they can turn the discussion. We know from Snowden leaks that they are attempting to influence public opinion online, so that seems like how I would do it. Also I've noticed that previous threads like this are particularly full of naysayers.
sz4kerto|11 years ago
Because of - to some extent understandable - reasons MS hate is still quite strong among this community but destroying an MS-related thread is unnecessary.
dangero|11 years ago
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